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On December 22, 1860 the first engine, âRockdale,â pulled into Oxford, Pennsylvania.
By December of 1865, the P & B Central had extended its line to Rising Sun. On Christmas Day of that year an excursion train ran from the Cecil County town to Oxford, Pennsylvania, for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church. Cars did not travel the route regularly, though, because the terminus had neither a turntable, depot or water station.
The Cecil Whig (3/34/1866) published a letter from a Rising Sun resident, who related the changes that had occurred in his town since the advent of the railroad.
Mr. Editor: â An important era has taken place in our village. From being a quiet, old-fashioned finished Maryland village, we have been changed into an important railroad terminus, having daily connections with Philadelphia. As a result, property has become in great demand and prices have increased enormously. Thus at the vendue of Mr. Cooper, a few weeks since, the old tavern stand so
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When San Francisco burned down - six times in a year and a half
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An illustration of the San Francisco fire of May 4, 1850, from “The Annals of San Francisco.”“The Annals of San Francisco”Show MoreShow Less
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Boats on the San Francisco waterfront in 1849, depicted in a lithograph.Hanhart / MPI / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
Everyone knows that San Francisco was consumed by flames after the 1906 earthquake. But it’s less widely known that the city was also devastated by a succession of fires during the Gold Rush.
No fewer than six destructive conflagrations ravaged the infant city in just 18 months the greatest number of major fires ever to strike any American city in such a short time.
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On December 11, 1890 Coronado officially incorporated as a city of the sixth class after voting in October to break away from the city of San Diego.
The news of the vote for independence was splashed across multiple pages of The San Diego Union on October 7. The newspaper editorialized the move as the “the bright dawn of a new era of assured prosperity,” for the free people of the island.
Unspoken was the reality that at the time, the Union’s publisher, John D. Spreckels, owned nearly all of Coronado and North Island including the fabulous Hotel del Coronado, the ferry, the trolley, and water systems.