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Terra Alta was originally called Portland, and under the latter name had its start in the 1850s. [7] The present name Terra Alta is derived from Latin meaning "high land". [ 8 ] According to the 1876 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad map, Terra Alta had a railroad station called Cranberry Station .
Stumptown is an unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the left and right forks of Steer Creek. [2] It was named for Michael Stump III, a pioneer settler. [3] [4] It lies at an elevation of 725 feet (221 m). The Stumptown Post Office opened May 29, 1883 and closed February 1, 1997. [5]
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: West Virginia Short Line Railroad: B&O: 1895 1912 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: West Virginia South Western Railroad: N&W: 1902 1909 Norfolk and Western Railway: West Virginia and Southern Railroad: 1897 N/A WV Southern Railway: WVSR 2003 2005 R.J. Corman Railroad/West Virginia Line: West Virginia Southern Railway ...
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
The Mountain Subdivision was opened in 1852 as part of the B&O's main line. [6] In 1904 the B&O built the Patterson Creek Cutoff to alleviate congestion in its Cumberland rail yard. The cutoff line ran from McKenzie, Maryland to Patterson Creek, West Virginia, providing a bypass of the yard for coal trains moving between Keyser and Brunswick ...
Portland, Oregon, bears the nickname Stumptown, as well as several other nicknames. In the mid-19th century, the city's growth led residents to clear a lot of land quickly, but the tree stumps were not immediately removed; in some areas, there were so many that people used to jump from stump to stump to avoid the muddy, unpaved roads. [ 1 ]
An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.
Map of the Appalachian and Ohio Rail line. The Appalachian and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark AO) is a class III railroad operating in West Virginia.. Originally the Cowen and Pickens Subdivisions of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the railroad was a part of CSX until it was leased to Watco, which began operating the railroad on March 25, 2005. [1]