NEW HAVEN & DERBY RAILROAD Stock 1886. CT. Ansonia Orange Tyler City. SCARCE VF+

Description

The New Haven & Derby Rail Road Company. Stock issued September 29, 1886 at New York City. Incorporated in 1864 in the State of Connecticut.
Certificate
No. 573
was issued to Rowland D. Armstrong of Brooklyn, New York for 10 shares of capital stock (0 per share). Hand signed by company
president Oral A. Sperry
and
secretary F. E. Harrison
. Certificate is about 5.5” x 10.” Black print on cream-colored paper. Small vignettes with train (top) and state seal of Connecticut (bottom).
The New Haven & Derby Railroad was chartered in 1864 in Connecticut to build a line running from New Haven west to Derby (through Orange and Tyler City), and north to Ansonia, planned as part of the route over the never-built Hudson Highland Suspension Bridge. The line opened in 1871, and in 1888 a four-mile extension from Derby Junction to a point in Shelton was opened. The rest of the extension, 10 miles from that point to the Housatonic Railroad at Botsford, was built by the Housatonic Railroad. The New Haven & Derby was leased to the Housatonic in 1889.
Condition:  Very Fine+
, light folds, minor creasing, no tears, light signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
Punderson & Crisand, New Haven Connecticut.
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