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Meredosia is a village in Morgan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 826 at the 2020 census, down from 1,044 in 2010. It is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Meredosia Island is a tract of woodland north of town that becomes water-bound when the river runs high. Many families resided there and made a living of the river there prior to 1920 by trapping furs and hunting fowl.
The Northern Cross Railroad was the first railroad to operate in Illinois, originating in Meredosia and eventually extending both east and west to the state borders. It eventually linked the state capital Springfield east to Decatur and Danville, and west to Jacksonville and the Illinois River, and later to Quincy on the Mississippi River .
The project (renamed FutureGen 2.0) was retrofitting a shuttered coal-fired power plant in Meredosia, Illinois, with oxy-combustion generators. The waste CO 2 would be piped approximately 30 miles (48 km) to be sequestered in underground saline formations.
Mar 25, 2019 · The Meredosia Bridge for automobile traffic opened in November 1936 and was demolished in August 2018. The Wabash steam engine roundhouse in Decatur was imaged 69 years ago today, on July 20, 1953. The Wabash transition to diesel locomotives was then nearly complete.
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Mar 13, 2008 · The first steam locomotive west of the Allegheny Mountains was built in Meredosia. The "Northern Cross", which became the Mighty Wabash Railroad, began on November 8, 1838 when an experimental steam locomotive, the "Rogers," took its initial journey.
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