Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Roger Dean Meyer
Taken: September 8, 2007
Caption: Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Additional Description: In 1850 workmen began to clear a line through Bush Hill for the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Richard William Scott described the first passage of the train in his Day Book, July 4, 1851: “We witnessed for the first time today, a train carrying about 600 people going on an excursion on the road to Backlick, a distance of 11 miles from Alexandria and the present termination of the rails—as seen from the north windows (6 in number) passing through our meadow with their gay passengers, presented a very pretty sight and to me one of great interest.”
Submitted: September 20, 2007, by Roger Dean Meyer of Yankton, South Dakota.
Database Locator Identification Number: p7346
File Size: 0.114 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.