Box 1

Tillinghast L'Hommedieu, Civil Engineer, C.H.&D. R.R. Engineering Dept., to S.S. L'Hommedieu, Pres., re: concerns about the construction of railroad tracks near the canal (likely the Miami-Erie Canal), including talk of grading, water levels, bridges, etc.

A.J.(?) Gardiner, at Cold Spring, Putnam Co., New York, to "Dear Cousin" (probably S.S. L'Hommedieu), re: family history dating back to 1686

History of the C.H.&D. R.R. by S. S. L'Hommedieu, manuscript written on company letterhead

S.S. L'Hommedieu, at Cincinnati, to Roswell Marsh, at Steubenville, Ohio, re: life history of Charles Hammond (d.1840, former editor of the Cincinnati Gazette)

I. N. Ellis ("A Stockholder") to Editors of Cincinnati Enquirer, in support of the C.H.&D. R.R.

Series I, Documents, consists of original printed and handwritten items that were previously tucked inside the scrapbook. Materials include business letters, circulars, stockholder notices, and pamphlets, dating from 1849 to 1862, and one report from 1909. The circulars range from the very first information concerning the breaking of ground for the railroad to other stockholder news. Also contained in this series is an original first passage ticket for the railroad dating to 1851.

Minutes from Meeting of the Board of Directors, re: "Considerations in Favor of the Immediate Construction of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, & Dayton Railroad"

Original resolution from the town of Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, granting the right of way to construct the road from Cincinnati to Dayton, by the Council Chamber, signed by A. Clay, mayor

C.H.&D. R.R. to Stockholders

Original printed Opening Excursion Trip Time Table: states all the Special and General directions, Thursday, the 18th of September, 1851