20th Century
In 1902 the W&P Railroad was acquired by B&O Railroad, marking 71 years of total existence for the W&P. Later the B&O sold the line to the Roanoke, Belmont and Occidental Railroad and was used in its Eastern Division until 1964. The line finally came under control of CSX Transportation as its Shenandoah Subdivision.
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Famous quotes containing the word century:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)