When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the west, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the ... Front Matter Download XML Table of ...
The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped ... the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850. An organized system to assist runaway slaves seems to have begun towards ...
An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.
The railroad was a technological risk-taker ... carpeted floors and elaborately painted ceilings. But in the 1850s, safety was a more basic concern. Locomotives were safe enough if the boiler ...
The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...
Johnson City Rail Experience is a multi-dimensional celebration of railroad culture, history and imagination with large model ...
In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became ... In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white ...