Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Company

Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Company.
Stock certificate signed on September 20, 1854 by Alexander Holmes, company president. The Old Colony and Fall River Railroad was formed as a meger between the Old Colony Railroad and the Fall River Railroad, and provided rail service from Boston to either Plymouth or Fall River. The railroad would expand greatly in the late 1800s, first to Newport, Rhode Island, later to Cape Cod, and also to Central Massachusetts and New Bedford also. This stock certificate was for six shares bought by Mr. Elijah Hale of Rockbottom, Massachusetts (which later became the village of Gleasondale, in what now is the Town of Stow).