The Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company was

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's first railroad company. It was first chartered in 1853 by William D. Griswold, a lawyer in

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. It was renamed Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad in 1877. It went on to be consolidated without railroads of the region into the

Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville. Founded in 1877, it grew aggressively and stayed relatively strong throughout the Great Depression and two Wor ...

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was a key player in financing its construction. The Vincennes railroad was originally chartered as the

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to connect with the

Ohio & Mississippi Railroad The Ohio and Mississippi Railway (earlier the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road), abbreviated O&M, was a railroad operating between Cincinnati, Ohio, and East St. Louis, Illinois, from 1857 to 1893. The railroad started in 1854 and paralleled the ...

at Olney, later at

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January 21, 1849. It was extended to Terre Haute, Rockville, and Crawfordsville. The section from Vincennes to Terre Haute, 58 miles built under WD Griswold and Chauncey Rose, was opened to through traffic on November 23, 1853 and completed in 1854. Rose donated his stock in the

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to the Evansville and Crawfordsville to finance its construction.Olney Daily Ledger, Apr 1, 1875, p 3 Available on Newspapers.com

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Defunct Indiana railroads Transportation in Evansville, Indiana Predecessors of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Railway companies established in 1853 Railway companies disestablished in 1877 1853 establishments in Indiana {{Indiana-transport-stub