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The Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company is founded which will later becme the Catawissa Railroad.
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The banking Panic of 1837 restricted investments in railroads, including the Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad which would later be used by Thomas Moran in his expedition to the Catawissa Valley.
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The United States Deprtment of the Interior is founded to protect and conserve land and natural resources.
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Kindred Spirits is created by Asher Brown Durand.
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Interior's Pacific Wagon Road Office improved the historic western emigrant routes.
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After the original railroad company went bankrupt, the Catawissa Railroad company was created during reorganization efforts.
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Creation of Valley of the Catawissa in Autumn by Thomas Moran.
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The Gilded Age, and era of social problems hidden by "a thin layer of gold", is ongoing in this timespan.
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The First Transcontinental Railroad, the Pacific Railroad, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah.
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Creation of Wild Asters by Dennis Miller Bunker.
