. Book of the Royal blue . E oF A RAIJJIOAD. 21 would be culled upon to follow the path-way he marked out. Truly the bed of theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad is historicground. It is not to be supposed the citizens ofOhio, even at that early date, were slow inavailing themselves of railroad March 8, 1845, a charter was grantedthe Marietta & Cincinnati Railway for theconstruction of a railroad from Marietta,the first settlement in Ohio, and then athriving town, to Cincinnati, the— ished, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad their line from < Irafton to Iarkers-burg. The old line
. Book of the Royal blue . E oF A RAIJJIOAD. 21 would be culled upon to follow the path-way he marked out. Truly the bed of theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad is historicground. It is not to be supposed the citizens ofOhio, even at that early date, were slow inavailing themselves of railroad March 8, 1845, a charter was grantedthe Marietta & Cincinnati Railway for theconstruction of a railroad from Marietta,the first settlement in Ohio, and then athriving town, to Cincinnati, the— ished, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad their line from < Irafton to Iarkers-burg. The old line of the .Marietta it Cincin-nati Railway was abandoned, and a new linebuilt from Iarkersburg to .Athens, the finebridge across the Ohio river Iniilt at Bar-kersburg, and Cincinnati had through rail-road connection with the Eastern PVancois Vinsenne and his com[)a-triots selected the site of the townof Vincennes, Ind., as a likely trading pointwith the Indians, they supposei] it would be. .slK,\U, K. K- M.,\K HAVIJKN. Queen of the West,In her garlands the banks of the beautiful river. The road was soon afterwards built, butthe surveyors, the soldiers of fortune ofmore than half a century ago, had not hadthe benefit of so much sad experience, asinstead of picking out the easiest and short-est line, the road was trailed over the rough-est part of the country, the number of steepgrades, bridges and tunnels being a great while after this road was fin- a gateway and a meeting point between thecommerce of the North and the South, andlittle did they think it would l)e the meet-ing place between two railroads whosejunction at the old trading post, Vin-cennes, would complete the chain unitingthe Father of Waters with old ocean. The Ohio & Mississippi Railway, as itwas then called, was incorporated under thelaws of the State of Indiana February 14,1S48, covering the construction of a linefrom Lawrenceburg to \incennes, Ind., with
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