Carr Papers
Deal for first railroad depot in Fulton, Kentucky
                
Submitted by:  Don Livingston [mailto:donaldl@hcis.net]
Jan. 2003
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	The entire collection of private papers of Benjamin Franklin Carr are in the
possession of the Fulton Public Library - Fulton, Kentucky. The following is a sample
of the what the collection contains.

	"Whereas B. F. Carr and G. W. Paschall have this day subscribed for two
thousand dollars of Bond of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad being of their first and
only mortgage bonds at 80 cents on the dollar to be paid one half 1st of May one half
1st of January next and in consideration thereof as agent for the New Orleans and Ohio
Railroad, I have agreed to locate a depot on their land. Now if the Board of Directors 
shall not confirm said location of depot on their said land then their subscription for
said bonds are to be null and void and they are not required to pay anything on said
 subscription.

April 4, 1857					R.W.Williams as agent for the New
						Orleans & Ohio Railroad Company"

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