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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 Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad was a Southern United States railroad that served South Carolina and North Carolina in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The line was chartered as the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad in 1873 [ 1 ] and the following year it was consolidated with the Greeneville and French Broad Railroad , a ...
The Southern Railway Building in Washington, D.C., formerly located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street NW in the early 1900s An 1895 system map A 1921 system map. The pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, Southern's earliest predecessor line and one of the first railroads in the United States, was chartered on December 19, 1827, and ran the nation's first regularly ...
Southern Railway – Carolina Division: Carolina Northern Railroad: SAL: 1899 1905 Raleigh and Charleston Railroad: Carolina and Northwestern Railway: CRN SOU: 1982 1988 Southern Railway: Carolina and Northwestern Railway: CR&N SOU: 1900 1974 Norfolk Southern Railway: Carolina Western Railroad: CARW 1923 1971 Seaboard Coast Line Railroad ...
The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company was a railroad in South Carolina that operated independently from 1830 to 1844. One of the first railroads in North America to be chartered and constructed, it provided the first steam-powered, scheduled passenger train service in the United States.
The system was originally chartered in 1854 as the Charleston and Savannah Railroad.The C&S RR established and operated a 120-mile (190 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [1] gauge rail line from Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, connecting two of the most important port cities in the antebellum southeastern United States.
The South Carolina Rail Road Company was a railroad company that operated in South Carolina from 1843 to 1894, when it was succeeded by the Southern Railway. It was formed in 1844 by the merger of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company (SCC&RR) into the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad Company.
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.