Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Creation Date

1850-03-05

Dissolution Date

1982-12-31

Entity Type

Organization

Chartered in 1850 by the Kentucky and Tennessee legislatures. Main line completed on November 1, 1859. Branch from Louisville to Lebanon was completed in 1858. Branch from Louisville to Bardstown was completed in 1860. Line from Louisville to Memphis was completed in 1861. President: James Guthrie.

Russell Wigginton, "Louisville and Nashville Railroad," in The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture ed. Carroll Van West (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 2002).
Charles B. Castner, "A Brief History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad," http://www.lnrr.org/History.aspx (accessed 03/14/2017).
Charles B. Castner, "Louisville and Nashville Railroad," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 570-80.

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