There were many thousand board feet cut at the mill and shipped on the railroad line that went through the city years ago. The City of Hayward was formally organized in 1883. About This Website This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org. ...
Hartmann Map for Tracking the Expedition’s Route: Sleuthing for Clues and Artifacts For over 100 years, the exact route of Coronado has been an American mystery. Generations of scholars have tried to retrace the steps of the army from their descriptions of villages, rivers, mountains, and nat...
Highway 50's reconstruction and oiling for a hard smooth surface began in 1935. The highway through Pleasant Valley had paralleled the railroad through the towns of Cotopaxi and Howard on the north side of the river. The new highway route was constructed south of the river (possibly during ...
Simultaneously, railroads began to promote economic development. In western Florida a railroad reachedPensacolain 1883, and in the following year Henry B. Plant finished his north-south line on the western side of the Florida peninsula as far as Tampa. Meanwhile, Plant’s counterpart on the east...
On this date in 1883, the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks were completed so that Tucson could be reached from the East Coast by way of the San Antonio. On this date in 1921, a fire in Payson destroyed two residences, a warehouse, a dance hall, a barn, a hotel and a restaurant. The...
the U.S. government began to locate army posts at key sites. In 1883 workers completed theAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railwayacross northern Arizona, thereby linkingSt. Louis,Missouri, with California; that same year theSouthern Pacific Railroadcompleted a line fromNew Orleansto Los Angeles by...