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Tag: 35th parallel route transcontinental railroad

  • Politics & Government

“A Pacific Railroad is . . . Worthy of a Great and Powerful Nation”: A Report by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, House of Representatives, 13 April 1860, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 19, 2023April 19, 2023
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  • Politics & Government

“A Pacific Railroad is . . . Worthy of a Great and Powerful Nation”: A Report by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, House of Representatives, 13 April 1860, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 13, 2023April 13, 2023
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More Descriptions of Greater Los Angeles in the “Report of Explorations for Railroad Routes from San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles, California,” 1854-1855

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 15, 2021
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  • Transportation & Infrastructure

“A Skeleton Report”: Lt. R.S. Williamson on Surveys for a Transcontinental Railroad Route in California, 1854

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 17, 2020December 29, 2020
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