Mortgage bond for the Richmond & York River Rail Road Company for $1000, issued January 1, 1866, 14 x 18, with all 22 coupons intact. Carrying a rate of 8%, the bond features vignettes of a steamship moving through violent seas and a locomotive passing through the countryside. Signed at the conclusion by Alexander Dudley as president and Richard Morton as treasurer. In fine condition, with partial separations to folds, and toning to upper edge.
The Richmond and York River Railroad Company built and initially operated 39 miles of railroad line between Richmond, Virginia and West Point, Virginia on the York River. The railroad prospered during the first year of the American Civil War, but was wrecked during the Peninsula Campaign. It was rebuilt after the Civil War and in 1894 became part of the Southern Railway Company.
