History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . The New Iron Towers of the Niagara Bridge. with Atlanta, Savannah with Macon, andthe Boston & Maine Railway finished toBerwick. The first railway out of Chicago—it wasthe first in Illinois—was built in 1850, toElgin. Chicago had no railway connectionwith the East till two years later, when i860] material PROGRESS 275 the Michigan Southern was opened. TheMichigan Central was finished soon afterthe Southern, and the Rock Island beforethe end of the year. The Michigan Cen-tral had direct connection east acros
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . The New Iron Towers of the Niagara Bridge. with Atlanta, Savannah with Macon, andthe Boston & Maine Railway finished toBerwick. The first railway out of Chicago—it wasthe first in Illinois—was built in 1850, toElgin. Chicago had no railway connectionwith the East till two years later, when i860] material PROGRESS 275 the Michigan Southern was opened. TheMichigan Central was finished soon afterthe Southern, and the Rock Island beforethe end of the year. The Michigan Cen-tral had direct connection east across Can-. Birthplace of S. F. B. Morse, at Charlestown, Mass. Built 1775. ada to Niagara Falls by 1854. In 1856 theBurlington route reached the Mississippiand the Rock Island went on to IowaCity. This year witnessed the opening ofthe first railroad in California—from Sacra-mento to Folsom. In 1857 Chicago andSt. Louis were joined by rails, as also the 276 THE YEARS OF SLAVERY [i860 latter city with Baltimore, over the Parkers-buig branch of the Baltimore & Ohio. V/e now come to an improvement ofwhich the preceding period knew nothing,
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