TAMAROA, Illinois
TAMAROA, Illinois
RAILROADS IN TAMAROA - 1900'S
The Topographic Map above displays Tamaroa as a Railroad Town. In the 1910s,
the Illinois Central Gulf R.R. ran N & S between Centralia and Carbondale while
the Missouri Pacific R.R. ran E & W Between Mount Vernon and Pinckneyville.
The crossing of these railroads required that personnel live there to maintain the crossings
plus control the passing of trains. This fact caused the town to have
a communications system where the TRI COUNTY Telephone Company
had its own Operator in 1886. The Company served in Three Counties.
the Illinois Central Gulf R.R. ran N & S between Centralia and Carbondale while
the Missouri Pacific R.R. ran E & W Between Mount Vernon and Pinckneyville.
The crossing of these railroads required that personnel live there to maintain the crossings
plus control the passing of trains. This fact caused the town to have
a communications system where the TRI COUNTY Telephone Company
had its own Operator in 1886. The Company served in Three Counties.
There is another community associated with the Tamaroa Indians. It is just 8 mile South.
See:
See:
DEPOT
The one saved in 1965 was a 1910 Stromberg Carlson Cabinet No. 1686.
As removed in 1965 and placed in the museum in 2018.
The First switchboard placed in 1886 would have looked like these.
OR; There was Mrs. Olsens Switchboard in Walnut Grove.
