Canada Junction Railroad Co. - PROOF - 1882 dated $1,000 Railway - Superb Graphics - St. Albans, Vermont

$1,000 5% Gold Bond Proof. Saint Albans, commonly abbreviated as St. Albans, is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,988. The town completely surrounds St. Albans City, which is a separate municipality. The town was named for St Albans in England. That city was named for the Early Christian English saint and protomartyr. On October 19, 1864, St. Albans was the site of the St. Albans Raid, the northernmost Confederate land action of the American Civil War. The Confederates conducted a cavalry raid and bank robbery from across the border with Quebec, Canada. The town of St. Albans and the city of St. Albans were not separated until 1902. References to "St. Albans" prior to this date generally refer to the town center, which now belongs to the city. The town was incorporated in 1859, and the city in 1902. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Albans_(town),_Vermont

The defendant joined with other railroad companies in taking a lease of the railroad of the Canada Junction Railroad Company, not built, but agreed to be built by Bradley Barlow, and in the execution of this guaranty upon 150 $1,000 negotiable bonds of that company, which Barlow was to have in payment for building the road: “For value received in the use and operating of the Canada Junction Railroad under a lease thereof and assignments of said lease, the Montreal, Portland & Boston Railway Company, the Southeastern Railway Company of Canada, and the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad Company of Vermont, do hereby jointly and severally guaranty the payment of the interest upon the within bond, as specified in the interest coupons thereto attached at the place and at the several dates therein specified.” Read more at https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F/0040/0040.f.0423.html

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