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Railroads -- Alabama -- Records and correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama railroads of the past collection

 Collection
Identifier: W-0042
Abstract

Stock certificates, shipping receipts, and correspondence related to the operation and history of seven Alabama railroads: the Mobile & Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company, the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad, the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, the Montgomery Southern Railway, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad, the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Montgomery Traction Company.

Dates: 1855-1945

Ashville Railroad Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0090
Abstract

Photocopies of resolutions about the formation of the company, legal documents, printed maps, certificates of incorporation, and board meeting notices related to the Ashville Railroad Company, 1882-1884.

Dates: 1882 - 1884

Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract

This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.

Dates: 1886-1982

Walter Lawrence Bragg letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0200
Abstract

Copies of incoming letters dated 1881-1882, from the Alabama state archives.

Dates: 1881-1882

Bush and Lobdell Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0049
Abstract

Five letters and a telegram to a foundry in Delaware from various Alabama railroads concerning purchase of wheels, trucks, pinions, and other items.

Dates: 1860

Milner Coal and Railroad Company meeting minutes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0101
Abstract

Minutes of directors and stockholders' meetings between 1900 and 1910

Dates: 1900-1910

Montgomery and West Point Railroad minute books

 Collection
Identifier: W-0102
Abstract

Contains two minute books, with entries from directors' and stockholders' meetings of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad from March 1846 to June 1870.

Dates: 1846-1870

Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll...
Dates: 1797 - 1973

S.A. and M. Railway survey notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0076
Abstract

Material relating to Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery (S.A. & M.) Railway

Dates: after 1888

Tuscumbia, Courtland, and Decatur Railroad records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1444
Abstract

Legal papers from the Mississippi Circuit Court and an Annual Report for the company from 1836

Dates: 1836-1845