Map of the City of Vincennes Indiana showing the connections of the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad

(Cairo, Illinois): Cairo and Vincennes Railroad , 1872. Map. Very Good. One Page. 19" h x 37" w. An apparently unrecorded original railroad map, dated Feb. 1872, showing the city of Vincennes, Indiana. 19' h x 37" w on translucent vellum architectural paper, scale 1" = 400 feet. Very Good number 920-4 in marker bottom right corner, bottom right corner clipped not affecting any details of the map, bottom left corner with 2 small holes punched, faint creasing and light soiling. Drawn in black with cross marks in red and the tracks of the C & V RR in blue. Details include locations of depots, mills, foundries and warehouses along the Wabash River, Catholic Church cemetery and property, street names and location of a seminary. Additionally showing are the lines of the Evansville & Crawfordsville RR, Indianapolis & Vincennes RR, and the Ohio & Mississippi RR. Founded in 1732 by the French, Vincennes, county seat of Knox County, is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in Indiana, and was the first capitol of the Indiana Territory. Its population in 1870 was 5,440. The Cairo & Vincennes Railroad was chartered in Illinois in 1867 by Civil War General Green B. Raum. The railroad began laying track in 1870, and was fully completed in 1874. Established to move coal from the Illinois mines, one of its first Presidents was the Civil War General Ambrose Burnside. It was reorganized as the C & V Railway, not railroad, in 1880, confirming the date this map was drawn. From a massive collection of recently acquired rairoadiana, including thousands of original railroad company maps.. (Inventory #: 010252)