Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . s a year. Grain, flour, provisions, cannedgoods, cattle, tobacco, and copper are exported in large quanti-ties. The chief imports are coffee, fruits, iron ore, chemicals,and tin plate (used largely in the canning industry). The cityis connected with foreign countries by nearly twenty regularlines of steam vessels, and many sailing craft, while many linesof steamers ply between the city and the ports of other states, aswell as between other ports of Maryland. There are more t
Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . s a year. Grain, flour, provisions, cannedgoods, cattle, tobacco, and copper are exported in large quanti-ties. The chief imports are coffee, fruits, iron ore, chemicals,and tin plate (used largely in the canning industry). The cityis connected with foreign countries by nearly twenty regularlines of steam vessels, and many sailing craft, while many linesof steamers ply between the city and the ports of other states, aswell as between other ports of Maryland. There are more than CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT 193 a score of railroad lines in the state, controlled chiefly by thePennsylvania Railroad Company. The Baltimore and Ohio,whose small beginning we have studied (See Sec. 95), hasdeveloped wonderfully since its early days; the rude engine ofPeter Cooper has been replaced by the huge modern locomotive,with its driving wheel of 78 inches diameter, hauling a train of tencars at the rate of sixty miles an The road connectsChicago and the Mississippi on the west, with Philadelphia and. THE NARROWS, CUMBERLANDFROM A PHOTOGRAPH New York on the east. Through trains pass under the citythrough the Belt Line tunnel, a mile and a half long, which isequipped with the most powerful electric locomotives ever the Baltimore and Ohio passed into the control of thePennsylvania Railroad, one of the largest systems in the world.^ Cumberland, an important railroad center and the westernterminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, is the commercial 194 LEADING EVENTS OF MARYLAND HISTORY center of the Western part of Maryland. Frederick and Hagerstownalso are railroad centers of importance. Several lines of railroadtraverse the Eastern Shore, which, with the numerous waterroutes of trade and travel, afford excellent commercial Elk and Delaware rivers are connected by the Chesapeakeand Delaware Canal, thus opening a short and direct water
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