Cape Girardeau Northern Railway - 1913 dated Railroad Uncanceled Gold Bond - Cap for Sale

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Cape Girardeau Northern Railway - 1913 dated Railroad Uncanceled Gold Bond - Cap For Sale

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Cape Girardeau Northern Railway - 1913 dated Railroad Uncanceled Gold Bond - Cap:
$105.00

$1,000 Uncanceled Gold Bond. Security Bank Note Company, Phila. Giboney was an unincorporated community in Saline Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States. Giboney was situated just west of Brewer in Saline Township in the northwest part of Perry County, situated along the south Fork Saline Creek and state route NN. It was a station on the Saline Valley Line. The community may have been named for the railroad executive Louis Houck\'s wife, Mary H. Giboney. The Giboney station on Old Lead Road was located between the Brewer and Minnith stations of the Cape Girardeau Northern Railway, which ran from Ancell (Cape Girardeau & Thebes Bridge Terminal) to Farmington. Louis Houck built the Cape Girardeau & Chester Railroad in 1905, later the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad, but it floundered due to financial difficulties that led to bankruptcy. Service was limited to stations only in Cape Girardeau by circa 1925. The village was situated approximately 26.5 miles from the Mississippi River. Read more at Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties in the Missouri Territory after the US made the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer stationed 1704\"1720 at Kaskaskia in the Illinois Country of New France. In 1733 he founded a trading post on the Mississippi River, which developed as the present-day city of Cape Girardeau. The \"cape\" in the county name was a rock promontory overlooking the Mississippi River and Claire\'s house; the original cape rock was destroyed by railroad construction. Read more at Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.