1880's $100 Oregon & Transcontinental Railroad Stock Certificate

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This beautifully engraved $100 stock certificate was issued by the Oregon and Transcontinental Company in the 1880's.


  • Railroad magnate Henry Villard of New York envisioned a complete transportation system to and from the Pacific Northwest
  • Portland, OR was the terminus of his new rail line that made the exporting of Oregon goods to the East Coast faster and travel easier than by boat
  • Vignette shows two Native Americans observing the coming of settlements, bridges, factories, miners and trains against a backdrop of rivers and mountains
  • Certificate measures 10 13/16" x 7 1/8"

Issued at the height of Westward Expansion and America's nation building that ramped up after the Civil War – add this to your collection of historic railroad stock certificates or gift it to a railway fan!