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1 day ago · The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada. [1] The network, primarily the work of free African Americans (and some whites as well), [2] was ...
1 day ago · New York, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio Central Railroad: NYC: 1879 1885 Ohio and Kanawha Railway, Toledo and Ohio Central Railway: Ohio Central Railway: NYC: 1876 1878 Columbus and Sunday Creek Valley Railroad, Ohio Central Railroad: Ohio and Indiana Railroad: PRR: 1850 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio, Indiana ...
1 day ago · The 49th parallel was agreed to be the border between the United States and British North America (later Canada) from Lake of the Woods to the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the Treaty of 1818 and Oregon Treaty. However, the true boundary line as surveyed deviates several seconds from the true parallel, as seen in this significantly exaggerated ...
1 day ago · Sequential issuance: 7-character plate (2 letters, 5 digits) Sequential issuance: 7-character plate (3 letters, 4 digits) Notes: Only the current passenger standard-issue serial format is depicted. Previous serial formats and optional issues are not depicted. Florida uses six-character serial numbers, but the combinations vary.
1 day ago · Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states of Texas, California, and Montana combined, and is the sixth-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and most sparsely populated U.S. state, but is, with a population of 736,081 as of 2020, the continent's ...
1 day ago · Buffalo is a major city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County. It lies in Western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River on the Canada–United States border. With a population of 278,349 according to the 2020 census, Buffalo is the second-most populous city in New York state and ...
1 day ago · Utah ( / ˈjuːtɑː / YOO-tah, / ˈjuːtɔː / ⓘ YOO-taw) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Colorado to its east, Wyoming to its northeast, Idaho to its north, Arizona to its south, and Nevada to its west. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.
