This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Varied 19th Century Notes on Rail Subsidies and Crime
The items cover rail subventions totaling 2.3 million dollars by the Mexican government, a bucket-shop venture in Bloomington, emigration plans by Chemnitz knitters, coal finds near Downs in McLean County, and a gauntlet of challenges from beer drinking contests in Cairo to a dramatic Manitoba style murder in Peru Nebraska. Other notes report political shifts in Virginia and Petersburg, iron industry gains in the South, a Davitt update from Portsmouth, and various local notices, including church collections and fraternal meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downs
McLean County
Cairo
West Virginia
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Maine
North Carolina
South Carolina
Davitt
Portsmouth
Captain Smith
Brennan
America
Ireland