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Historic Economic Development

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008, at 3:55 PM

Merchants and business owners of Piggott could see the value of having a second railway passing through town in the years between 1910 and 1916. They got together and raised over $10,000.00 to attract the Butler County Railway to build track through our town. That would be quite a sum in todays currency.

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Was this the old "Moose" Line that ran to Pollard? GRH

-- Posted by GRH on Tue, Jun 10, 2008, at 10:06 AM

$10000.00 in 1916 would be the approximate value today of $194870.30...or more!

-- Posted by GRH on Mon, Jun 16, 2008, at 12:08 AM

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