Entry #1

Author: Hagley Museum and Library. Regional Economic History Research Center.
Title: Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.
Description: 8 linear feet.
Summary: The Regional Economic Research Center was a temporary unit of the Hagley Museum and Library devoted to supporting research on the economic history of the Middle Atlantic States between 1750 and 1850. Between 1978 and 1981 it conducted a project to document and map the growth of the transportation infrastructure between New York and Virginia. The work on canals and railroads was published as CANALS AND RAILROADS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES: 1800-1860, in 1981. However, additional data had been collected on roads and turnpikes as well. The Map Project Data Files include all the work undertaken by the project team, including much that was excluded from the final publication.
The card files consist of an abstract of all private and public transportation projects compiled from the session laws of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (then including the territory of West Virginia), along with additional data from other sources such as company annual reports and county histories. In addition to canals and railroads, the types of enterprises listed include bridges, ferries, roads, turnpikes, plank roads, river improvements, rivers as public highways, and public landings. Incomplete information on steamboats and stagecoach lines was also recorded.
The data sheets are a standard form for recording information on railroad and canal projects which actually organized and spent money. The sheets record data on incorporation and organization, disposition, bankruptcy, construction by each segment, physical characteristics, and names of engineers. Annual data was also collected, where possible, on outstanding equity and debt, earnings, and expenses. There are also tabulations of unfinished railroads and canals similar to those published for finished projects.
The copies of reports are photocopies of published reports of railroad and canal projects not otherwise available at the Hagley Museum and Library. Most of the data were transferred to the data sheets. The notes and articles are photocopies and rough notes from more general reports, county histories, and similar publications. They include population data used to rank the type size of town names on the published maps.
The map compilation and work sheets were the intermediate step between the data sheets and the published maps. They were primarily drawn at a scale of 1:500,000, twice that of the published maps. They include the locations of surveys and un-built lines and intermediate stations which were eliminated from the published maps. The survey locations were copied from original published and manuscript surveys and by plotting from verbal descriptions contained in contemporary prospectuses and reports. Baer, Christopher T., CANALS AND RAILROADS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES: 1800-1860 (Greenville, DE: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1981).
Local Call No: 1777.
Location: Hagley Museum and Library, Manuscripts and Archives Department, 298 Buck Road East, P. O. Box 3630, Greenville, DE 19807.
Source: NUCMC/RLG.

Entry #2

Author: Unknown.
Title: Fourth extra supplement to the Canal Gazette, 9 February 1826.
Description: 1 item.
Summary: Broadside of an address by William Hollins to the people of Maryland in favor of the projected Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Location: Hagley Museum and Library, Manuscripts and Archives Department, 298 Buck Road East, P. O. Box 3630, Greenville, DE 19807.
Source: NUCMC/RLG.

Entry #3

Author: Ramsay Family.
Title: Ramsay Family Papers, 1828-1958.
Description: 4 linear ft.
Summary: William Gouverneur Ramsay was the son of Joseph Gales Ramsay (1843-1899) and Anne Morris Ramsay (1846-1910). He trained as a civil engineer at the University of Virginia, finishing his course work in 1887. His employment included numerous engineering positions with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, for which he worked sporadically from 1883 until 1892.
Local Call No: 2014.
Location: Hagley Museum and Library, Manuscripts and Archives Department, 298 Buck Road East, P. O. Box 3630, Greenville, DE 19807.
Source: NUCMC/RLG.