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Aratea and Mad River Railroad steamer manifests

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Aratea and Mad River Railroad steamer manifests
1894 manifests from different steamers: Schooner Berta Minor, Occidental, Humboldt, J. G. Wall, etc. The Arcata and Mad River Railroad (reporting mark AMR) is the oldest line on the North Coast. It began as a plank road in 1854, later a horse-drawn railroad, finally with locomotives until the track was finally closed by landslides in 1994. The Arcata and Mad River Railroad was affectionately known as the "Annie and Mary," due to its initial letters. AMR's predecessor, the Union Plank Walk, Rail Track, and Wharf Company, was incorporated on December 15, 1854, to provide access over the mud flats near the town of Union (later Arcata) to ocean going shipping for a distance of 2.7 miles. The track was built on wooden rails overlaid with strap iron. It was a horse-powered railroad from the town to the end of a wharf in Humboldt Bay.

State: CA
City: Arcata
County: Humboldt

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