1847 Northern Railroad Stock Certificate - NEW HAMPSHIRE

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1847 Northern Railroad Stock Certificate - NEW HAMPSHIRE
1847 Northern Railroad Stock Certificate - NEW HAMPSHIRE
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State: New Hampshire
Date: 1847
Size: 8 in x 6 1/2in
Color: Gray
Rare State - NEW HAMPSHIRE - Nice red embossed seal. Printed by John T. Prince & Co.
A little history:
The Northern Rail Trail is a multi-use rail trail in western New Hampshire, USA, currently 48 miles (77 km) in length from Lebanon to Franklin.[1] It uses the right of way of Boston & Maine's former Northern Line that was acquired by the State of New Hampshire in 1996. The trail is managed by the NH Bureau of Trails.
The Northern Railroad built this line from Concord to White River Junction, Vermont, in 1847. The Boston-based investors were one of three groups in a race to connect with a line coming up the Connecticut River valley, and thus on to Quebec. Daniel Webster spoke at the ribbon-cutting in Lebanon, "It is altogether new. The world has seen nothing like it before." Not in attendance - by choice - among the 1,200 at the inauguration of the "steam highway" were any of the Shaker community from nearby Enfield. The Shakers had worked a deal with the railroad to relocate its proposed corridor to the opposite side of Mascoma Lake from their colony, while getting a bridge to its depot. A stock purchase and the naming of a locomotive The Shaker sealed the bargain. In 1887, the company was acquired by the Boston and Maine Railroad.
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