Chesterfield Railroad
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chesterfield-railroad-185-19152475
title:
Chesterfield Railroad
text:
The Chesterfield Railroad was located in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was a 13-mile (21-kilometer) long mule-and-gravity powered line that connected the Midlothian coal mines with wharves that were located at the head of navigation on the James River just below the Fall Line at Manchester. It began operating in 1831 as Virginia's first common carrier railroad. Although it was dismantled before the American Civil War after being supplanted by the steam-powered Richmond and Danville Railroad,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Railway line in the United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterfield_Railroad
date created:
2004-12-06T07:48:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:05:14Z
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fields total:
13
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16