Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam

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| 247 Index accidents, accounts of, 97, 130–31, 137, 141–42, 166–67, 182 Air Line Railroad, 138, 140, 143, 150, 169, 188 automobile, 189, 190, 191 Barnet, 111 Berlin Iron Bridge Company, 142 Bissell’s Ferry, 25 Blake, Eli Whitney, 138 Boston & Albany Railroad, 123, 148, 177, 183 Boston & Maine Railroad, 123, 174, 177, 178, 179, 180, 183 Boston Post Road: accounts of travel on, 29, 30–31, 40–41; lower, 29–31, 40– 41, 45, 50–51; middle, 29–30, 39, 45; upper, 27–29, 39, 45, 67, 187. See also post roads, other Boston Railroad Holding Company, 180 Brainerd, Ezra, 57–58 Brandeis, Louis D., 179, 181, 185, 186 Brewster, James, 65–66 bridges: builders of, 56–58; covered, 55– 56, 141; in eighteenth century, 36– 39; financing of, 37, 39; in nineteenth century, 55–58, 187; railroad, 140–44; in seventeenth century, 26–27; kinds of trusses, 27, 55–58, 141, 143, 145 Bristol, 161 Burr, Theodore, 56, 58 canals: Connecticut charters, 101; Erie Canal, influence of, 100–101, 119; state policy toward, 102, 104. See also individual canals carriage making, 65–67, 78, 83 carriages, 65, 189, 191 Central Vermont Railroad. See Grand Trunk Railroad Clark, Charles P., 170–73, 174 competition, as legal principle, 60–62, 79. See also monopoly Connecticut, 91, 93, 94 Connecticut, government of, 19–20, 46– 47, 71–72, 189, 234n4 Connecticut Central Railroad, 138, 170 Connecticut Company, 184 Connecticut Highway Department, 190 Connecticut River Banking Company, 111, 114 Connecticut River Company, 108, 109, 118, 121, 146; and the Barnet, 111, 113; and Connecticut River Valley Steamboat Co., 113; and extension to Lake Memphremagog, 109–10; as monopoly , 112–13 Connecticut Steamboat Company (Connecticut ’s first), 92 Connecticut Valley Railroad, 138, 140, 150, 169 Connecticut Western Railroad, 138, 140, 141–42 Consolidated (railroad). See New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Cook, G. & D. and Co., 65–66 corduroy roads, 23 court decisions, Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors: Beardsley v. Smith, 127; Beers v. Housatonic Railroad, 129; Boroughs v. Housatonic Railroad, 129; Bridgeport v. Housatonic Railroad , 127; Darrigan v. New York & New England Railroad, 234n9; Enfield 248 | index Toll Bridge v. Connecticut River Co., 61, 227n31; Hartford Bridge Company v. Town of East Hartford, 226n24; Middletown Bank v. Magill and Others , 60; Middletown Bank v. Russ et al., 226n29; Perrin v. Sikes, 61; Salem & Hamburg Turnpike v. Lyme, 73; Southmayd and Hubbard v. Russ et al., 226n29; State v. Hartford & New Haven Railroad, 147 court decisions, U.S. Supreme Court: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 61; Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 60; Gibbons v. Ogden, 92–94, 97, 113 Danbury & Norwalk Railroad, 128 Derby Turnpike (Connecticut’s last), 76, 119 Dickens, Charles, 95, 145 Dowd, Charles, 155, 156 Duryea, Frank and Charles, 189 economic expansion: in eighteenth century , 32–33, 107–8; and the environment , 45, 188; and managerial capitalism , 157, 188; and market capitalism, 32, 35, 43, 79, 84, 188; role of taverns in, 33, 70–71; and transportation, 1, 48, 77, 85, 152, 154 electric street railways, 187; accounts of travel by, 165–66; interurbans, 167– 68, 235n29; regulation of, 166; as threat to the New Haven, 168 Enfield Canal: construction of, 111–12, failed attempts to construct, 108; reasons for, 107, 109; success of, 113–14, 118. See also Connecticut River Company Enfield Toll Bridge Company, 61, 92, 227n31 Enterprise, 92 exclusive privilege, as legal principle, 25–26, 36, 61, 87–88, 89, 90 factory villages, 82–83, 189, 190 Farmington and Bristol Turnpike, 64, 73 Farmington Canal, 146; design of, 105– 6; and extension to Lake Memphremagog , 107, 114, 115–16; federal funds for, 115–16; financing of, 106– 7, 115–16; operation of, 114–15, 116– 17, 118; reasons for, 104–5; regulation of, 106; reorganization of, 116; steamboats on, 231n70. Federalism Triumphant, 71–72 ferries: in eighteenth century, 35–36, 187; in nineteenth century, 55, 58–59; in seventeenth century, 24–26; railroads and, 144–45; regulation of, 25– 26, 35–36, 59 Finlay, Hugh, 40–41 Fitch, John, 85–88, 89, 90, 94, 121, 160 Ford, Henry, 189 Franklin, Benjamin, 40 freight wagons, 41–42 Fulton, Robert, 85, 90 Fulton, 91, 93, 94, 161 General Railroad Commission, 137, 141, 142, 144, 150, 166; and competition, 140, 149, 171; and consolidation, 148; creation of, 131–32 Grand Trunk Railroad, 180–81 Greenwich Turnpike, 50 Greenwoods Turnpike, 55 Hampshire & Hampden Canal, 105, 112, 114, 116 Hartford & New Haven Railroad, 125, 142, 146, 147, 148, 149 Hartford and...