LEADER 03568nam 2200601 450 001 9910791054203321 005 20230803221202.0 010 $a0-253-01187-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001263284 035 $a(EBL)1672952 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001181593 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11669007 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001181593 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11146160 035 $a(PQKB)10109172 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1672952 035 $a(OCoLC)876513968 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35564 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1672952 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10857500 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL589497 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001263284 100 $a20140423h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston rail road $edreams of linking North and South /$fH. Roger Grant 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 1 $aRailroads Past and Present 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-253-01181-7 311 0 $a1-306-58246-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSlow, difficult, and dangerous travel -- A rail road? -- Knoxville, 1836 -- Surveys, finances, and construction -- Crisis and contraction -- What happened -- What might have happened. 330 $a"The ante-bellum era was an expansive time in American history, including the transport sector, when the agrarian republic was evolving into an industrialized society. It would be railroads, not canals, roads, and waterways that made this possible. The ambitious--perhaps too ambitious--Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road (LC&C) of the late 1830's became a part of rapidly spreading "railroad fever." This projected road was one of the first seriously attempted inter-regional projects. If the LC&C had begun operations as planned, it would have been the nation's longest railroad and also its largest private corporation. As a path-breaking railroad, the LC&C would have bolstered the economies of the three cities at its extremities and scores of existing and new communities along its stem. The road also might have affected the political landscape of the nation, perhaps even preventing southern secession. As with most railroads, whether early or late, large or small, successful or not, several individuals sparked the drive. For the LC&C, its greatest champion was the politically prominent Robert Y. Hayne. No wonder this South Carolinian played a pivotal role in organizing the greatest railroad convention in the South prior to the Civil War. In July 1836, hundreds of delegates from nine states flocked to Knoxville, Tennessee, to discuss building this nearly 700-mile line. However, it would not be until 1894, with formation of the Southern Railway, that these dreams conceived at the dawn of the Railway Age were fully realized"--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aRailroads past and present. 606 $aRailroads$zSouth Carolina$xHistory 606 $aTransportation$zSouth Carolina$xHistory 615 0$aRailroads$xHistory. 615 0$aTransportation$xHistory. 676 $a385.06/5777 700 $aGrant$b H. Roger$f1943-$01089069 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791054203321 996 $aThe Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston rail road$93847220 997 $aUNINA