Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad

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Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad
Locale Mississippi, Tennessee, United States
Dates of operation 1852 (1852)–1886 (1886)
Successor Illinois Central Railroad
Length 97 miles (156 km)[1]

The Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad was an American railroad constructed in the 1850s, connecting Memphis, Tennessee with Grenada, Mississippi. In Grenada, the line connected with the Mississippi Central Railroad.[4]

History

The railroad was incorporated on October 16, 1852, and enabled cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta to ship their product to Memphis, where it was loaded onto steamboats and transported to New Orleans.[5][6]

The city of Batesville, Mississippi was founded following the construction of the railway, and drew its residents from surrounding communities.[7]

During the Civil War, the railroad's trestle over the Coldwater River was destroyed by Federal troops.[8] Following the war, the railroad was "a complete wreck, and literally without rolling stock".[9]

The railroad was purchased in 1886 by the Illinois Central Railroad.[10]

Current use

The line is currently used by the Grenada Railway.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Stations and Structures on the Current and Former Railroad Lines in Mississippi". Mississippi Railroad Information. November 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Stations and Structures on the Current and Former Railroad Lines in Mississippi". Mississippi Railroad Information. November 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Mississippi & Tennessee Map". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ Dana, William B. (1867). Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review. William B. Dana. p. 342.
  5. ↑ Laws of the State of Mississippi. Mississippi State Printer. 1886. p. 722.
  6. ↑ Bond, Beverly G.; Sherman, Janann (2003). Memphis: In Black and White. Arcadia. pp. 34, 61.
  7. ↑ Kyle, John W. (1913). Reconstruction in Panola County. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. XIII. Mississippi Historical Society. p. 13.
  8. ↑ Smith, Timothy B. (2010). Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front. University Press of Mississippi. p. 71.
  9. ↑ The Commercial and Financial Chronicle. 4. William B. Dana. 1867. p. 489.
  10. ↑ "A Brief History of DeSoto County Mississippi". DeSoto County, Mississippi. Retrieved May 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  11. ↑ "Business Overview". Grenada Railway. Retrieved May 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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