Collection #

OM 0418

 

 

Lafayette, Muncie, and bloomington
Railroad Company reports, 1877

Collection Information

Historical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Emily Castle
25 February 2005

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

1 oversize folder

COLLECTION
DATES:

15 May–7 June 1877

PROVENANCE:

Ragman Antiques, Wm. B. Spencer, Portland, MI, 30 December 1999

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

2000.0265

NOTES:

 

HISTORiCAL SKETCH

In July of 1869 Adams Earl, Robert Breckenridge and Henry S. Mayo led the organization in Tippecanoe and other Indiana counties for a Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington (Illinois) Railroad Company.  In late August 1869 Tippecanoe County voted to buy $373,000 worth of stock to help build the proposed line through Tippecanoe, Clinton, Tipton, and Benton Counties.

After many financial problems and legal battles, the Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington was completed and connected Muncie, Indiana and Bloomington, Illinois via 195 miles of track.  It operated fairly regularly during 1874–76.

Sources:

A Day in the Life of Tippecanoe Country.  Tippecanoe County Historical Association, 2003 [cited 20 January 2005].  Available from World Wide Web: (http://tcha.ecn.purdue.edu:8080/?q=1869)

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of two ticket sales reports from the Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad Company for the Alexandria Station in Madison County, Indiana.  One is a monthly statement for May 1877, while the second is a weekly report ending the week of 7 June 1877.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

“Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington R. R. Monthly Statement of Local Tickets Sold and On Hand at Alexandria Station, Month of May 15th to 31st 1877.”

Folder 1

“Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad Co. Weekly Report of Local Tickets Sold at Alexandria Station, week ending June 7th 1877.”

Folder 1

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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