Kentucky Central Railway
1856 to 1881
Railroad company in Kentucky. Created by joining the Covington & Lexington Railroad and the Lexington & Danville Railroad by the Kentucky General Assembly in March 1856. Owner(s): Robert Bonner Bowler and heirs (1858-1873). Secretary of the board of directors: Alfred Hall Ransom.
Bibliography
The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 491-92.
KYR-0002-222-0009.
Citation
Kentucky Central Railway. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214627 (November 12, 2026).
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