Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Issued to Howard H. Hopkins - Stock Certificate for Sale

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Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Issued to Howard H. Hopkins - Stock Certificate For Sale

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Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. Issued to Howard H. Hopkins - Stock Certificate:
$155.00

Stock issued to Howard H. Hopkins. Likely a relative of Johns Hopkins? The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting marks B&O, BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from the city of Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of the National Road early in the century, wanted to continue to compete for trade with trans-Appalachian settlers with the newly constructed Erie Canal (which served New York City), another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania (which would have connected Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (which connected to the nation\'s capital, Washington, D.C., although it never reached Ohio), and the James River Canal, which directed traffic toward Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia. At first, the B&O was located entirely in the state of Maryland, its original line extending from the port of Baltimore west to Sandy Hook (opened in 1834). There it connected with Harper\'s Ferry (by boat, then by the Wager Bridge) across the Potomac into Virginia, and also with the navigable Shenandoah River. Because of competition with the C&O canal for trade with coal fields in western Maryland, the railroad could not use the C&O right-of-way west of Harpers Ferry. Thus, to continue westward through the Appalachian Mountains, the B&O chose to build the B Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.