Cotton Railroad Through Mississippi
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Author | : R. Milton Winter |
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Release | : 2022-11 |
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ISBN | : 9780991404148 |
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Milton Winter is preparing a new book called Cotton Railroad Through Mississippi: The Mississippi Central and the Illinois Central. The line was begun in the 1850s by Holly Springs investors including H. W. Walter and Walter Goodman. It eventually extended to Cairo, IL and New Orleans and became part of the huge IC system. Much of it was built by slave labor, and this sad chapter in African American history is explored in depth here for the first time. The line brought much wealth to its owners. But because of its strategic routing it became one of the most fought over locations in the Civil War. The book includes much never-before-published Civil War material, including Thomas Edison's brief tenure as a telegrapher on the line. There is also a chapter telling how the line delivered refugees during the 1878 yellow fever, including a section on Water Valley, a true railroad town where the company shops were located. Milton tells the story of Casey Jones famous wreck on the line at Vaughan, MS and how the famous engineer began his career on the tracks that run by our historic depot. He narrates how the line fascinated William Faulkner and is depicted in many of his stories. A final chapter tells the story of the Oxford, MS depot, dear to the hearts of many Ole Miss students. The story of the southern portion of the line below Grenada which was incorporated into the IC mainline via Memphis is recorded, along with the present status and operations of the remaining trackage in the two remaining Grand Junction-Oxford and Grenada-Canton segments. With over 100 illustrations, the 125-page book will be available in the autumn of 2020.
Author | : Mississippi. Public Service Commission |
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Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Public utilities |
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Author | : Mississippi. Railroad Commission |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Railroads and state |
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Author | : Illinois Central Railroad Company |
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Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Download Arbitration of Cotton Rates from Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee to the Cotton Mill Territory of the Carolinas Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : John Hebron Moore |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807114049 |
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The Old South's Cotton Kingdom arose simultaneously in two widely separated localities, the backcountry of the South Atlantic states and the east bank of the Mississippi River. Spreading from these places of origin and later merging, the east and west branches of the upland short-staple cotton industry developed along similar lines until the Civil War.John Hebron Moore's The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770--1860 traces the evolution of cotton culture in the region bordering the Mississippi River. Moore examines the society supported by that industry, emphasizing technological changes that transformed cotton plantations into agricultural equivalents of factories and slaves into Mule-drawn equipment led to the introduction of improved methods of managing plantation slaves, and that in turn altered the nature of plantation slavery significantly.Moore focuses on Mississippi as both the pioneer cotton state of the Old Southwest and the Old South's leading producer of cotton between 1835 and 1860. Progressive planters made major contributions ot the success of the antebellum upland cotton industry, including the breeding of superior varieties of cotton, the introduction of improved farm implements and machinery, the development of effective methods of combating soil erosion, and systems for managing slaves based upon incentives rather than coercion. In addition, unlike other studies of antebellum southern agriculture, this book examines the contributions to the success of cotton industry made by steamboats and railroads, manufacturing establishments, and the urban population.
Author | : Mississippi. Public Service Commission |
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Total Pages | : 958 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Mississippi. Railroad Commission |
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Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Railroads and state |
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Download Annual Reports of the Railroad Commission of the State of Mississippi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Mississippi. Railroad Commission |
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Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Public utilities |
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Author | : Robert L. Brandfon |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Gerard Helferich |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-10-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1496815742 |
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This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against such timeless adversaries as weeds, insects, and drought, as well as such twenty-first-century threats as globalization. Over the course of the season, Helferich describes how this singular crop has stamped American history and culture like no other. Then, as Killebrew prepares to harvest his cotton, two hurricanes named Katrina and Rita devastate the Gulf Coast and barrel inland. Killebrew's tale is at once a glimpse into our nation's past, a rich commentary on our present, and a plain-sighted vision of the future of farming in the Mississippi Delta. On first publication, High Cotton won the Authors Award from the Mississippi Library Association. This updated edition includes a new afterword, which resumes the story of Zack Killebrew and his family, discusses how cotton farming has continued to change, and shows how the Delta has retained its elemental character.