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Grenville Dodge: Architect of the iron road, man of intrigue — Part 1 of 2. Grenville Dodge moved west to Illinois following graduation from Norwich University. He was passionate about building a transcontinental railroad. Photo courtesy of U.S. National Archives.
On May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad met at Promontory Point, Utah, 1186 miles from its starting point at the Missouri River. In Andrew J. Russell’s iconic image of the event, “East and West Shaking Hands at Laying of Last Rail,” Grenville Dodge is at the center, shaking hands, the figure to the right. His ...
Grenville Dodge was one Iowan who was well known to most people living in the last half of the 19th century. He was a war hero, a politician and a railroad builder who led a very exciting life.
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Major General Grenville Mellen Dodge—it is a name that is indelibly linked to the opening of the West as a result of Dodge's work on the Union Pacific creating the continent’s first transcontinental railroad. Grenville M. Dodge was born on April 12, 1831, in Danvers, Massachusetts.
24 maj 2022 · Here are five things you didn’t know about Dodge: 1-General Ulysses S. Grant made General Dodge his intelligence chief during the Civil War’s Vicksburg Campaign. Dodge also led various expeditions and performed valuable work repairing and rebuilding railroads, bridges, and telegraph lines.
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