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Time Line - 1833
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April 22: Erie & Kalamazoo Rail road incorporated. [MDY33/DWS]
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June 6: Andrew Jackson was the first United States President to ride on a railroad train. He journeyed from Ellicott's Mills Maryland to Baltimore over the Baltimore & Ohio. [AARQJ]
Electromagnetic telegraph is invented. [DWS]
Time line Key:
- Railroad event in Michigan
- Event relating to mining
- Event related to car ferries
- Event outside of Michigan
- Improvement in Technology
- Railroad built or extended
- Railroad abandoned and/or removed
- Economic panic or depression
Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI