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Caption: Marker detail: Gadsden Purchase
Additional Description: At a price of 33 cents per acre, nearly 30,000 square miles of land were purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1854. The Gadsden Purchase provided a southern route for the intercontinental railroad.
Submitted: October 15, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p543855
File Size: 0.353 Megabytes

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