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Title: Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Lloyd, James T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fitch, John, 1743-1798. (from old catalog) Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. (from old catalog) Steamboat disasters Steam-navigation Railroads
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co. Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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al of North Shore Steamers,and all trains from Suspension Bridge. Passengers for St. Louis, by purchasing tickets, via Joliet CutOff, will save twelve hours time, and fifty miles railroad travel. Trains of Michigan Central Railroad run into the Union depot atChicago, from which the trains of the Chicago, A. and St. Louis, Illi-nois, Central, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroads depart,avoiding hack hire and change of baggage incident to other routes. Through tickets can be purchased at all principal Railroad andSteamboat ofiices in the United States and Canadas; at 173 Broad-way, New York ; 21 State street, Boston; Great Western RailwayOffices, Rochester, and 17 Exchange street, Buffalo, and at the officeof the Michigan Central Railroad, foot Erie street, Buffalo. The officers of this Road are—John Forbes, President, Boston,Mass.; R. N. Rice, Superintendent, Detroit; C. B. Swain, GeneralAgent for the Boats of this line, Detroit; Charles E. Noble, GeneralAgent, Buflalo, N. Y.
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RAILKOADS IN THE UNITED STATES. 311 LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD. Leaving Louisville, this road passes through a part of JciTerson,and directly through the county of Bullitt, touching Shephcrdsville,the county scat. At twenty-five miles from Louisville it enters arich iron region where there is now in full blast one or more furnaces,furnishing ore in abundance to supply many more. At the end ofthirty miles the Lebanon branch diverges, coursing along the richvalleys of the Beech and Rolling Forks. Within forty miles it reach-es another iron region, where there is now in blast one furnace, andothers could be abundantly supplied with ore ; reaching the town ofNew Haven, at forty-five miles, it crosses the upper Nashville turn-pike, thus by its locality inviting the trade of Bullitt, and parts ofHardin, Nelson, and Larue. This branch terminates at Lebanon, aflourishing and enterprising town, the county seat of Marion, at a dis-tance of sixty-seven miles from Louisville. At that point

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