The Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company is chartered as a holding company to acquire railroads that the Richmond and Danville Railroad itself couldn't.
December 1 – Thomas Seavey Hall, American inventor of railroad signalling systems (b. 1827).
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