The residents of Braymer in southern Caldwell County celebrate as the first-ever passenger train in the area passes by. “There were speeches and the firing of anvils,” notes a history on the Caldwell County website. This illustrated atlas of Caldwell County dates to 1876.
Photo credit: An illustrated historical atlas of Caldwell County, Mo. 1876. Edwards Brothers. State Historical Society of Missouri. https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/11523/