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Michigan Jackson
RAILROADS.
The Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad was chartered by the legislature of the territory of Michigan in 1833, was completed and commenced running in October 1836 from Toledo to Adrian—thirty-three miles, and from this time until 1842, when the Central road was completed to Jackson, most of the freight to and from the east was brought to Jackson over that road and hauled by teams from Adrian or Clinton.
In 1835 banking privileges were granted to this company, and the bills of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company for several years formed a goodly share of the circulating medium in this community in common with the whole of what was then the northwest.
The Palmyra and Jacksonburgh Railroad was chartered in 1836, and twelve miles—from Palmyra, on the Erie and Kalamazoo Road, to Clinton—was finished in 1837. This road was forfeited to the state, the iron (flat bar) taken up and the road abandoned. The line is that on which the Jackson branch of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern was afterwards built.
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