QUOTE: Originally posted by Eric Johnson As mentioned eariler., the "land grant " is usually thought of as the Federal one, but many orads, like the GN, got extensive city and county local land grants as an incentive to not bypass an area. Hill used the bypass threat very often to get rights of way when he was building. It usually worked, since towns were morbidly afraid of being bypassed by the RR in the 1880s and 90s.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by marcimmeker A yes! "Vacant" land to give away... But it wasn't exactly vacant was it? And that had a solution to: shoot the food of those living there and put them in homelands.... I'm not going to hold my breath to see some landreform Zimbabwe style though. I have a Delorme atlas of Wyoming that shows that checkerboard pattern along the Union Pacific, one mystery solved, only umpteen to go. As for states and towns and cities giving landgrants. Did they really give swaths of land as wide as the federal government did? Or only big enough for the railroad and maybe a yard and industrial development? greetings, Marc Immeker
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QUOTE: Originally posted by deepspire Here's an interesting page on the land grants, although these guys hate the railroad. http://www.landscouncil.org/transitions/tr9812/
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