Add to ORKGThe Richmond & Petersburg Railroad (R&P) was Virginia\u27s most successful antebellum line. In telling the story of the R&P, this paper seeks to understand how a railroad could be successful in the antebellum South, and what that success meant. I argue that the R&P formed part of an extended system of transportation that was designed to benefit Richmond
The Influence of Railroads on Southern Society Given the vast scholarship on antebellum railroad...
Until the 19th century land transport was almost entirely dependant on the horse. It was expensive a...
A 1992 manuscript written by Hubert V. Crawford titled The Role of Railroads and Heavy Industry in ...
Railroad construction provided a focus for the acceleration of economic rivalry between Richmond, Pe...
The first railroad built in Virginia was chartered March 8, 1827. By the year 1860, there were 1,350...
Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum...
The construction of railroads in the State of Virginia was perhaps the single most important economi...
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad has perhaps had one of the most interesting histor...
The South Side Rail Road, chartered in 1846, was the fourth railroad to serve the city of Petersburg...
In the late 19th century, begining of the 20th century railroads represented the modern transportat...
Charles Henry Ambler's thesis of antebellum western Virginia depicted the state as divided into two ...
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company (RF&P) is the only American railroad that ...
There are Civil War historians who argue that slavery in the United States South was a dying institu...
Most of the debates about race relations focused on the railroads of the New South. Travel was a dif...
In 1884 the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk Railroad, a subsidiary of the powerful Pennsylvania ...
The Influence of Railroads on Southern Society Given the vast scholarship on antebellum railroad...
Until the 19th century land transport was almost entirely dependant on the horse. It was expensive a...
A 1992 manuscript written by Hubert V. Crawford titled The Role of Railroads and Heavy Industry in ...
Railroad construction provided a focus for the acceleration of economic rivalry between Richmond, Pe...
The first railroad built in Virginia was chartered March 8, 1827. By the year 1860, there were 1,350...
Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum...
The construction of railroads in the State of Virginia was perhaps the single most important economi...
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad has perhaps had one of the most interesting histor...
The South Side Rail Road, chartered in 1846, was the fourth railroad to serve the city of Petersburg...
In the late 19th century, begining of the 20th century railroads represented the modern transportat...
Charles Henry Ambler's thesis of antebellum western Virginia depicted the state as divided into two ...
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company (RF&P) is the only American railroad that ...
There are Civil War historians who argue that slavery in the United States South was a dying institu...
Most of the debates about race relations focused on the railroads of the New South. Travel was a dif...
In 1884 the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk Railroad, a subsidiary of the powerful Pennsylvania ...
The Influence of Railroads on Southern Society Given the vast scholarship on antebellum railroad...
Until the 19th century land transport was almost entirely dependant on the horse. It was expensive a...
A 1992 manuscript written by Hubert V. Crawford titled The Role of Railroads and Heavy Industry in ...