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The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1989). online; Craven, Wesley Frank. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607–1689. (LSU, 1949) online; Edgar, Walter B. ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) online.
The Blue Ridge Railway was a 19th-century railroad in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was originally chartered in 1852 as the Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina . Original plans were for a 195-mile line from Anderson, South Carolina , to Knoxville, Tennessee going through the mountains with as many as 13 tunnels including the incomplete ...
The mission failed, but sections of the railroad would be severely damaged during Sherman's subsequent 1865 Carolinas Campaign. [2] Following the war, the railroad was reorganized in 1866 as the Savannah and Charleston Railroad but did not complete repairs and reopen for traffic as a 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge line until 1869 ...
The Cheraw and Darlington Railroad was a 26-mile (42 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [1] gauge shortline railroad that served South Carolina and, later, North Carolina, beginning before the American Civil War. The gauge was changed to 4 ft 9 in ( 1,448 mm ) in 1886.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad operated the line for many years as their Sumter—Columbia Line and they operated both passenger and freight service. Sumter was a major hub for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. By 1902, passenger trains began operating to Columbia's newly-built Union Station along with the Southern Railway. [5] [6]
The company in the late 1980s, as the Mid-Atlantic Railroad, began operating two former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad branch lines. One was a portion of the now abandoned ACL line between Wilmington, North Carolina, and Whiteville, North Carolina, and the other was operated by the Waccamaw Coast Line from Conway, South Carolina, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
South Carolina Western Railway Station, also known as the Seaboard Airline Railway Station, is a historic train station located at Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1911 by the South Carolina Western Railway and is a rectangular brick building with projecting rectangular bays at the center of two sides.
The South Carolina and Georgia Railroad remained separate corporation until May 1902, when it was consolidated with several other lines controlled by Southern. [2] Southern Railway obtained a 999-year lease of the line in 1902, which is still in effect. [3] In December 1990, the Southern changed its name to Norfolk Southern Railway. In 1996 ...