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    1. Re: Location, location, location
    2. OKAY Dave: I owe you, and will come up with one, about the Ghost of the Flagman that got killed, and on certain nights he still comes out and tries to flag a train, he has been seen by a lot of people at the spot just where he was killed when he went to sleep and the following train he was supposed to be flagging ran over him. Another thing, the first Town with a Post Office was located at a town on the Benton County Side and it was West Danville, and did have the first Post office in that area. Now as to the Elevator it was put in to transfer peanuts from Barges, that had gathered them up, from up and down the river, would bring them to the Danville (On the Danville side Houston County next the coal chute to be transferred from Barge to Railroad box car. I am trying to develop information on what Genealogical effect the building of railroads had on the settling of our country, The two Irish groups that built RR in the South, Chinese in the West, The Mexicans in Texas, The Germans in Pennsylvania, the Irish and Italians in New York and any more I can find. Ira

    07/26/1999 07:25:19