Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site, the Mifflin farmstead in ... newspaper clippings and ...

Jay Cooke's firm had been the government's chief financier of the Union military effort during the Civil War. The firm then became a federal agent in the government financing of railroad construction.

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War ... land-owning African Americans during the 1860s and '70s, as well as the arrival of the first railroad from Houston on Christmas Day, 1871.