Lived in ohio, although they had immigrated from england and scotland. But the wilsons lived here in augustine and they were the only ones on his side of the family who were in the south and took the Southern Side of the conflict. All of his brothers and sisters his mother was of norse of the time up north at the time it. They created a bit of a division. The civil war affected the wilsons like it did most people. The modern part of the civil war the latter part of the civil war, the south was subject to a huge inflationary situation with money because of course, the confederate currency was getting more and more worthless. And we see that demonstrated in the church records, president wilsons fathers salary was 3000 a year when the war started. That was given to him quarterly in 750 installments. The latter part of a 264, the first part of 1865, they paid him in regular installments and they started shoving money at him, thousands of dollars at a time, 5000 here, 3000 there, of course,
Original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. Included on this ties a list of the dignitaries from that company, including leland stanford, and the big four are all marked there. Another thing you can see on this site is a connection with the resources that would have the twoilable to companies building the railroad. We have mocked up everything to make it as authentic as possible. If you look on the west side, you will see the cut ties. The Central Pacific had they cut all of their ties and brought them down from the mountain. The Union Pacific from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in the area so they would split them and you can see them mocked up, how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age as you are going into the industrial age. It was a perfect time for the United States. When that Transcontinental Railroad was complete, it made a major