Freight income on the Central Railroad of Georgia, 1845-1860

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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
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georgia
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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, 2008), pages 116-117 (figure 8 and table 6).
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Abstract

This dataset provides monthly income from freight on the Central Railroad of Georgia from 1845 to 1860 as given in the annual reports of the company. The annual report broke out up and down freight separately.

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1845 is December only. 1860 is January-November only.
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