Henderson County a little Railroad history....
Latley I have been reading local History of surrounding Counties in Illinois and some had a little bit of history on area railroad lines so I am making some blogs on each county and what I see so starting off is Henderson County. Henderson County is right across the Mississippi River from Burlington, Iowa in Western Illinois. The source of the information comes from a book written by Robert P. Sutton called... " Rivers, Railways, and Roads - A history of Henderson County, Illinois". Peoria & Oquawka Railway ( P&O, later absurbed by the CB&Q): The first county railroad was the Peoria & Oquawka project, Promoters such as John McKinney, Preston Martin, Robert M. Petterson, and nine others organized as "commissioners" at a meeting on Dec 20, 1849, and agreed to sell stock in the enterprise at $100 a share with a down payment of only five percent. They estmated the total cost of construction would be anywhere from $6,000- $10,000 a mile. Aut