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Article: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
In February 1827 the Baltimore and Ohio was charted as the first railroad company in the United States of America by a group of Baltimore businessmen. Its establishment was a response to an emerging commercial rivalry and to a complex series of social, economic, and technological changes that were transforming the country in the first half of the nineteenth century. The settling of the agriculturally rich Ohio Valley and the rapid expansion of the population on the eastern seaboard, which generated chronic food shortages, demanded that a swift means of transportation be found to ship produce from the Midwest to the coast. The construction of the Erie Canal ...
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