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Bonds issued
by Tennessee to
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, dated 1866.
Artifact #94.56.123
(Tennessee State Museum)
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During Reconstruction,
the new state governments embarked on ambitious and expensive programs
of economic development, rebuilding its cities and hoping that railroad
and factory development would produce a prosperity shared by both races.
However,
the goals were never fully realized, partly because Northern investors
preferred new opportunities in the West.
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The bonds
are signed by William G. Brownlow, governor of Tennessee from 1865 to
1869.
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