$1M Bd-Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking RY 1890 Ohio Brown

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Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking Railway Company $1,000, 5% , First Mortgage GOLD Bond due 1940Incorporated: Ohio Issued - Dated January 1, 1890 NOTEWORTHY BROWN bordered and underprint Cert: #3401 Has been folded Has NOT been cancelled Has been hand signed Measures 13 3/4" x 9 3/4" Imagers 1.Front 2. Vignette 3. Signatures 4. Back 5. Coupons The President was W. E. Guebin . He as president signed as secretary and the secretary signed as president. Mr Guerins biography is included. It all began with the incorporation in 1869 of the Atlantic & Lake Erie Railroad Company which was formed to build a railroad from a point near Pomeroy on the Ohio River to Toledo on Lake Erie, passing thru Granville, twenty-five miles east of Columbus. Between foreclosures, receiverships, and reorganizations, this company and its successors managed to complete stretches of grading here and there between the river and the lake, and even laid some rails, so that by 1875 it was operating coal trains from Moxahala in the Sunday Creek coal fields to its junction with the Central Ohio Railroad (B&O and PRR) four miles west of Newark. Even for this short haul, trackage rights over the Cincinnati & Muskingum valley Railroad were secured for the twelve miles between New Lexington and Bremen. A VERY long history included with certificate VIGNETTE Two Top: GREAT one read more