Diaspora Desk Dailyby Black Executive Journal

Institution · 1834–1857

Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad

State-built railroad run as a public toll road: shippers supplied their own cars and coupled to state engines until the Pennsylvania Railroad bought it in 1857.

Institutions and enterprises

  • carried railcars of · 1849Smith & Whippertwenty-two privately owned railcarsBEJ profile · cites PHMC; Underground Railroad historical marker

Only relationships stated in a BEJ profile or a cited record are shown, each with its source.