2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/22/2021
Bond Certificate, 15" x 9-1/2", "Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road, Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds, Charleston, South Carolina, December 31, 1838. This was issued to House of Palmers, London. There are six cancelled coupons. This historic document was printed by Drapel Toppan Longacre & Co. and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman, a Revolutionary War hero, and a Cherub. In 1835, hoping to further improve the transportation of cotton from the Deep South northward, a new railroad was chartered, the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. In 1838, to encourage the expansion of the road to the state capital, Columbia, the State of South Carolina agreed to guarantee the issue.
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