April 26, 2024
CARBONDALE & SHAWNEETOWN RAILROAD Stock 1872 Murphysboro - Marion, Illinois COAL
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The Carbondale & Shawneetown Railroad Company . Stock issued May 20, 1872 at Marion, Illinois. Incorporated in 1869 in the State of Illinois. Embossed company seal lower left, with locomotive in center. Certificate No. 298 was issued to R. R. Dawes for 160 shares of cock ($100 per share) . Company capital was $1,000,000 . Hand signed by company president Samuel Dunaway and secretary Augustus N, Lodge . Certificate is about 7.5" x 10.5". Black print on cream-colored paper. Vignette with train at station.The Carbondale and Shawneetown Railroad's roots began as the Murphysboro & Swauneetown Railroad in the mid-1860s to build a railroad in southern Illinois from Murphysboro (Jackson County) to the Ohio River at Shawneetown (Gallatin County). When plans got scaled back, the line then became the Carbondale & Shawneetown Railroad in 1869, formed by a group of coal operators from the east. The Carbondale to Marion section of this road was completed in January 1872. In addition to carrying coal from the mines near Carterville and elsewhere in Williamson County to Carbondale, it brought cotton, tobacco, and dried fruits for reshipment on the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1880 the first part of a railroad line from Carbondale to Pinckneyville was built, reaching Harrison, a town north of Murphysboro. The Pinckneyville end of the line was built
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