Front:
Roseby's Rock-
On Christmas Eve. 1852, the
Baltimore and Ohio Linked
Baltimore with the Ohio River,
thus fulfilling the Original Pur
pose of gis founders.
This picture portrays a momentous event in the history of the Baltimore
and Ohio. The road's actual coustruction was symbolized by the laying
of the First Stone on July 4, 1828, at Baltimore, Md., and it took more
than twenty-four years of labor, and the overcoming of great physical,
financial and political obstacles, before the plan of the founders, the
completion of the road to the Ohio River, was realized on Christmas
Eve of 1852, with the joining of the rails at Roseby's Rock, 17 miles
east of Wheeling, W. Va. This is the last of twelve historical scenes
painted by Herbert D. Stitt for the Baltimore and Ohio in commemora-
tion of its Centennial Year, 1927&
Back:
POST 5-
(Issued by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
in Honor of the Centennial of Wheeling,
West Virginia, August, 1936)
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