April 21st Special Days - Featuring 50+ Railroad Freebies!
Rate this post:Natchez Route a Mississippi Central Railroad Album |
PLUS - interesting books to read and free printables, papercrafts, recipes, crafts, activities, and coloring pages.
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- The first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River crossed the river from Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport, Iowa was finished being built on April 21, 1856. The first train crossed on April 21, 1856. On April 22nd, Rock Island Railroad president Henry Farnam and guests were the first to cross the new bridge. On May 6th, the steamboat Effie Afton, traveling from St. Louis to St. Paul, lost control and struck one of its piers. The boat was destroyed by fire, and a portion of the bridge also burned.
Read: Regional Railroads of the Midwest
-- These regional railroads of the heartland, with their special operations and oftentimes unique equipment, are celebrated here in all their local color, historic power, and splendid detail. Highly respected rail writer and photographer Steve Glischinksi draws on his own knowledge and archive, as well as on the photography of several colleagues, to offer an authoritative, lavishly illustrated account of the histories, motive power, and operations of twelve of the Midwest's most vital current carriers, including a system map of every road covered.
• Railroad Coloring and Activity Books
Building the Transcontinental Railroad |
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Four Railroad Recipes:
🚂 Official Railroad Cookbooks
🚂 Railroad Classic Recipes For the Holidays
🚂 Railroad Pie
🚂 Railroad Dinner Deluxe
Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:
🚂 Train Printables | ThoughtCo.com
🚂 Train Coloring Book
🚂 Choo Choo Cute: 3D Train DIY Children's Craft and Printables
🚂 Train coloring pages | SuperColoring.com
🚂 Felt Board Train Song and Patterns
🚂 Free Railroad Worksheets and Printables
🚂 Kid's Page Train Activity Sheets - the Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum
🚂 Train and Railroad Coloring Page Sheets
🚂 Train Party Ideas - Kara's Party Ideas
🚂 Steam Train coloring page
🚂 Steam and You! How Steam Engines Helped The United States
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🚂 Printable Steam Train Coloring Pages
🚂 Surviving Steam Locomotives in the USA
🚂 TrainPlayer Game | Armchair Model Railroading | Unlimited Free Demo
🚂 Train Sim APK | realistic train simulator suitable for both adults and kids
🚂 FREE Steam Train Number line 0-30 Early Years (EYFS) Printable
🚂 Steam Train Craft with Colouring and Gluing
🚂 Printable Train Number Matching Card Game
🚂 Steam Train Dream Train Busy Bag
🚂 Top 20 Thomas The Train Coloring Pages
🚂 On The Train | Printable Book for Early Readers
🚂 Steam Locomotive Worksheets and Printables
🚂 Make a train conductor hat - Alabama Department of Archives
🚂 Train conductor hat tutorial - On the Cutting Floor: Printable pdf sewing
🚂 14 Train Crafts and Art Ideas
🚂 19 Train Themed Free Printables
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🚂 Printable Railroad Crossing Sign
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🚂 Railway Timetables you can print
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🚂 Free Printable Shipping Containers
🚂 Free Printable Model Railway Card Building Kits
🚂 Rail Nation: Free strategy train game
Autobiography of Mark Twain |
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876, and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called
the Great American Novel
🖋️ Mark Twain Printables and Worksheets
🖋️ FREE Printable: Mark Twain Quote
🖋️ Mark Twain Resources | Surfnetkids
John Adams: 2nd President |
- On April 21, 1789, John Adams, the first vice president of the United States, began his duties as president of the Senate. He enjoyed a cordial but distant relationship with President Washington, who sought his advice on occasion but relied primarily on the cabinet.
🇺🇸 John Adams Worksheets and Coloring Pages
🇺🇸 John Adams Printables and Worksheets
🇺🇸 John Adams Resources | Surfnetkids
The Night Before Kindergarten |
- In honor of Friedrich Froebel, born April 21, 1782, who started the first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837. The school was built upon a series of innovative principles that used the innate curiosity and interests of children to guide them to see what Froebel believed to be the harmonious, interconnectedness of all things.
📛 Kindergarten Portfolio
📛 Free Kindergarten Printables
📛 Preschool and Kindergarten Worksheet
San Jacinto |
- April 21st commemorates a battle between the Texas Army and Mexican forces about 25 miles from downtown Houston, Texas, in 1836. This became known as the Battle of San Jacinto and was a turning point for Texas' independence from Mexico.
⚔️ Texas coloring page | Crayola.com
⚔️ Texas Bob's Texas Coloring Book
⚔️ Free Texas Printables for Homeschoolers
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