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Centenary of the Stourbridge Lion in Honesdale Celebrated
The 100th anniversary of the Stourbridge Lion signals the August observance in Honesdale Pennsylvania. The first practical American locomotive ran on August 9 1829 under Horatio Allen on a three mile Carbondale track despite later issues with iron rails. The feature includes a parade and a monument to the Lion and Horatio Allen while tracing America’s railroad rise from three miles to a vast network of rails and engines.
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Iron Horse
Honesdale
America
Horatio Allen
United States
Yale University Press
Oliver Evans
Benjamin Dearborn
John Stevens
Richard Trevithick
Liverpool & Manchester Railway
George
Robert Stephenson
Stephenson
Liverpool & Manchester
Great Britain
Europe
Pennsylvania
Carbondale Railroad
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
England
Foster, Rastuck and Company
Stourbridge
Stephenson and Company
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Carbondale
New York City
Baltimore & Ohio
Charles Carroll
Baltimore
Ellicott's Mills
Peter Cooper
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Cooper
Tom Thumb
Ellicott’s Mills
Gray Horse
Phineas Davis
York
Davis
Charleston
Hamburg
West Point
New York
Mohawk & Hudson Railroad Company
Albany
Schenectady
New York Central
Southern Railroad
West Point Foundry
da Witt Clinton
Charleston & Hamburg
Mohawk & Hudson
New York & Harlem
Camden & Amboy
New Jersey
Philadelphia & Germantown & Norristown
Columbia Railroad
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad
Reading Railroad
New England
Boston
Lowell
Worcester
Providence