East Louisiana Railroad
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east-louisiana-railroad-249-8063562
title:
East Louisiana Railroad
text:
The East Louisiana Railroad, chartered in 1887, was a railroad in Louisiana and Mississippi, United States. It was formed to connect Pearl River, Louisiana, to Covington, Louisiana, and Lake Pontchartrain. The company played a key role in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson by arranging for Homer Plessy, a black man, to board a whites-only passenger car. In 1889, the company chartered trains to a boxing match between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain. In 1905, it was merged into the New Orleans
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wiki
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description:
Defunct railroad in Louisiana and Mississippi, United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Louisiana_Railroad
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date modified:
2022-08-28T22:38:13Z
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