Dataset: Freight income on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, 1851-1858
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The Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD)
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Railroads
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
United States History
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
United States History
Region
south carolina
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Date issued
2016-04-12
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Scholarly Commons, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Related resources
Aaron W. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), pages 122-123 (figure 11 and table 9).
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Abstract
This dataset provides monthly income from freight on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad from 1851 to 1858 as given in the annual reports of the company. The annual reports broke out up and down freight separately.
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Comments
1851 is October-December only. The figures for 1858 are drawn from the eleventh annual report, page 13; the column is erroneously labeled "1857."