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James J Hill House |
St Paul, MN |
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James J Hill's North Oaks Farm, Dairy Building, Granary Root Cellar and Auxiliary Buildings |
North Oaks |
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James J Hill's North Oaks Farm Blacksmith and Machine Shop |
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St Paul Public, James J Hill Reference Library |
St Paul, MN |
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1838/09/16 |
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1883/00/00 |
Paris Gibson and James J Hill establish a partnership to acquire thousands of acres near the falls to develop a fine city on the site. |
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Great Falls |
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1883/00/00 |
Stone Arch Bridge is built over the Mississippi River to connect James J Hill's Great Northern Railroad to the Union Depot under construction at Hennepin Avenue and Nicollet Avenue. |
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Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis |
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1884/00/00 |
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J Hill's James North Oaks Farm |
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1889/09/18 |
James J Hill forms the Great Northern Railway from the bankrupt St Paul and Pacific, and the Minneapolis and St Cloud. |
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1891/00/00 |
James Hill calls Thomas Burke into his St Paul office and outlines "a system of transportation by land and by water which will reach from New York to Yokohama and Hong Kong." |
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1892/08/00 |
Herman Rosenthal, a Great Northern representative, arrives in Japan to invest trade opportunities between Japanese and foreign merchants. |
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1893/05/00 |
Herman Rosenthal reports to Hill that under the rotten form of government in China, trade is practically nonexistent, but a steamship line controlled by the Great Northern from Seattle to Hong Kong, Nagasaki and Yokohama would be a sound venture. |
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1893/06/00 |
With the Great Northern Railway's opening of through passenger and freight traffic to Seattle, James J Hill's combination of rail and shipping can ship Memphis cotton to Shanghai 197 days faster than any other system of delivery. |
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Iron Goat Trail, Stevens Pass Historic District |
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1902/12/13 |
CHICAGO, Dec 13 - James J Hill to-day forecasted his retirement as head of the Great Northern Railroad, and perhaps the other great corporations in which he is the leading spirit. - NY Times |
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1905/00/00 |
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway is chartered by James Hill to connect the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, to Portland, Oregon from Spokane, Washington, to challenge the Union Pacific interests for rail traffic in the Pacific Northwest. |
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1906/06/13 |
James Hill buys No 8 East 65th Street from Anna B Bliss for $450,000. "Mr Hill is the second of the Western railroad magnates to reach the decision recently that he spends enough time in New York to justify his buying a house here." - NY Times |
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James J Hill and Gavin Residences, NY |
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1907/00/00 |
Louis W Hill succeeds his father as president of the Great Northern Railway. |
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1909/00/00 |
Reputedly the best engineered railroad ever built in the US, the SP and S is completed at a cost of over $57 million. The railway's many bridges reflect a commitment by James Hill to spend more on a design that allows locomotives to pull more cars faster. |
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1912/00/00 |
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James J Hill Northcote Farm |
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1915/01/01 |
Powers Hotel welcomes its first guest James J Hill. The grand hostelry offers hot and cold running water and a telephone in every room and a first class cafeteria on the premises. There rooms cost $1 per night, or $1.50 with a bath. |
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Powers Hotel |
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1916/05/29 |
Died |
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