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The town was the meeting point in 1871 for the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] (616 miles from [[Bombay]]) and the [[East Indian Railway]] (220 miles from [[Allahabad]]), and the completion of the first Bombay-Calcutta trunk railway line.
There was a cantonment at Jubbulpore.
It is the location of the Gun Carriage Factory, the oldest Ordnance factory in Central India, commenced 1904.
*[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc Burials at Jubbulpore Cantonment Cemetery] Commonwealth War Graves Commission
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Dead-buried-and-remembered-too/articleshow/9163014.cms "Dead & buried, and remembered too"] by Shishir Arya, July 9, 2011 ''The Times of India''. Mathura Pershad and Co. Jubbelpore provided many of the gravestones in Jubbelpore in the days of the British Raj.
===Historical books online===
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74905153 ''Annual reports on the working of the lock hospitals in the Central Provinces''] [ID: 75107675]] Reports cover 1876-1889. National Library of Scotland .Contains reports from Jubblepore eg page 28 (file page 37} "Report On The Lock Hospital, Jubbulpore, 1876".
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