Railroads
Railroad Land Accumulations
President Grover Cleveland had instructed his executive department heads to search for ways to economize in their domains. The Department of the Interior responded with an investigation of the nation's railroads and their large inventories of western lands. The federal government had orchestrated massive land grants to railroad developers. Huge blocks of land were given away to motivate construction; in turn, the government would receive bargain rates to ship the mail, soldiers, military equipment and other cargo. By the mid-1880s, it became apparent that many of the developers had not constructed mileage commensurate with the amount of land granted to them. In the wake of the Cleveland administration inquiry, the railroads were forced to return more than 80 million acres.
Off-site search results for "Railroad Land Accumulations"... Pacific Railroad Act - Transcontiental Railroad and Land Grants
... Company, of California, the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern Division, and all other companies as provided for in the said act of the second July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to issue their six ...
http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.html
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum - Facility Rentals - Landing Page
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Aboard the Underground Railroad-- Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office
The Smith family had extensive land holdings in New York, and the Land Office, constructed by Peter Smith in 1804, was the administrative focal point of the family's real estate activity and business ventures. Out of the Land Office, Gerrit Smith ...
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ny3.htm
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