. Book of the Royal blue . The ceremonies attending this great eventwere conducted by the Masonic city of Baltimore was in gala attire,and strangers from distant points beganarriving in town a day or two before thecelebration. The leading event was the laying of thefirst stone of this first railroad of the Venerable Charles Carroll, of Carroll-ton, the last surviving signer of the Declar-ation of Independence, cast the first spadefulof earth for the beginning of the railroad,saying: I consider this among the mostimportant acts of my life, second only to thatof signing t
. Book of the Royal blue . The ceremonies attending this great eventwere conducted by the Masonic city of Baltimore was in gala attire,and strangers from distant points beganarriving in town a day or two before thecelebration. The leading event was the laying of thefirst stone of this first railroad of the Venerable Charles Carroll, of Carroll-ton, the last surviving signer of the Declar-ation of Independence, cast the first spadefulof earth for the beginning of the railroad,saying: I consider this among the mostimportant acts of my life, second only to thatof signing the Declaration of Independence,if, indeed, second to that. July 4th of the present year, the 13.^dbirthday of the republic, was also the eighty-first birthday of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road, and in recognition of the fact, the. 2 EIGHTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY OF THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD
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