Santa Fe Transport Corporation - Galveston, Texas Company Unissued Stock Certificate - Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System
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Unissued Stock. Galveston is a coastal resort city and port located off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the state of Texas. Covering an area of 211.31 square miles (547.3 km2) and with a population of 53,695 as recorded in the 2020 census, it serves as the county seat of Galveston County and is the second-largest municipality within the county. Additionally, it is situated at the southern end of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area, along the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Galveston, named after the 18th-century Spanish military and political figure Bernardo de Gálvez, 1st Count of Gálvez (1746–1786), who hailed from Macharaviaya, Málaga, in Spain, saw its first European settlements established around 1816 by French pirate Louis-Michel Aury. These settlements were intended to support Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain, alongside other colonies in the Americas during the 1810s and 1820s. The Port of Galveston was founded in 1825 by the Congress of Mexico after its independence from Spain. The city played a crucial role as the primary port for the nascent Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution of 1836 and briefly served as the national capital of the Republic of Texas. In 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived at Ashton Villa to inform some of the last enslaved African Americans that slavery had been abolished, an event that is commemorated each year on June 19, known as Juneteenth.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, commonly known as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States from 1859 until 1996. Established in February 1859, it was designed to connect the cities of Atchison and Topeka in Kansas with Santa Fe in New Mexico. The railway extended to the Kansas-Colorado border by 1873 and reached Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To stimulate demand for its services, the railroad established real estate offices and marketed farmland derived from the land grants it received from Congress for the construction of its tracks.
A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.
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