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  1. Work started in Maryland on the Baltimore-Ohio Railroad.
    date July 4, 1828 to January 1, 1853map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Economy

    On July 4th, 1828 construction began in Baltimore, Maryland to build one of the first railroad lines in the United States. It was a massive project proposal that took many months of negotiations between the Maryland State legislature and the Chesapeake Company. The Maryland Gazette, based in Annapolis Maryland, reported that the cost of the operation to be in the range of five hundred to seven hundred...