From its opening in 1854 until the triumph of the automobile sixty years later the railroad was LaFayette's life-line. Nearly everything coming into or going out of the hamlet came by rail. Heavily laden wagons traversed the steep mile-long hill. Furniture or a new piano for the family parlor, vats of kerosene and non perishable goods for LaFayette's general stores and embalmed bodies ready for burial waited in the freight house. By the 1880's farm...
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