History Tuskegee Railroad

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1 history

1.1 1860 founding
1.2 civil war - rail destroyed
1.3 1872 reconstruction
1.4 1943 tuskegee airman
1.5 sale of railroad in 1963
1.6 1978 literature





history
1860 founding

on february 20th, 1860, state of alabama granted charter incorporate tuskegee railroad. railroad owners david clopton, william foster, cullen a. battle, robert f. ligon, j.w. echols, s. b. baine, g.w. campbell, a. b. fanin, john c. h. reid, w. g. swanson , a. d. edwards. in 1860, 500 enslaved africans worked building railroad under lease agreements plantation owners collected pay slave s labor.


civil war - rail destroyed

u.s. general sherman sent u.s. general lovell rousseau on raid of montgomery , west point railroad destroyed rail chehaw station of tuskegee railroad, cutting of connections tuskegee railroad points. tuskegee railroad melted down confederates armaments american civil war.


1872 reconstruction

william g. swanson , others bought defunct railroad in 1869 , signed agreement e. t. varner & company. e. t. varner & company rebuilt railroad 1872. run e. t. varner & company tuskegee railroad until 1902 when incorporated under name , owned e. t. varner, l. v. alexander , campbell & wright. rates 10 cents per mile in 1882.


1943 tuskegee airman

benjamin o. davis jr. of world war ii tuskegee airmen remembered 99 squadron of bombers riding on tuskegee railroad in 1943. mentions segregation in autobiography, unfair treatment of black people , 19 pullman drawing room railroad put black politicians not see worse effects of segregation.


sale of railroad in 1963

when interstate 85 built through alabama , alabama state route 81 widened connecting tuskegee institute interstate in 1963, need railroad gone , railroad received permission interstate commerce commission no longer operate. trains salvaged , warehouses built depot demolished after of property sold.


1978 literature

ralph ellison wrote little man @ chehaw station: american artist , audience jazz musician playing street performance in great depression. setting used chehaw station of tuskegee railroad.








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