Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
The Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad was a Southern United States railroad that served South Carolina and North Carolina in the years after the American Civil War.
The line was chartered in 1873[1] and in 1874 the Spartanburg and Asheville was consolidated with the Greenville and French Broad Railroad, a North Carolina line.[2]
The line between Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Hendersonville, North Carolina, opened in 1879.[3] It was sold under foreclosure in 1881 and reorganized under the Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad that same year.[4]
The 21-mile distance between Hendersonville and Asheville, North Carolina, was completed in 1886.[5] By that point, the line was operated as part of the Richmond and Danville Railroad until 1894 and controlled by the Southern Railway afterward.[6]
References
- ^ Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina, 1893, page 215
- ^ Open Jurist, Commissioners of Buncombe Co v. Tommey, 1885
- ^ General Railway Notes, South Carolina's Interests, New York Times, Jan. 31, 1880
- ^ Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina, 1893, page 215
- ^ Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains, Thomas E. Jeffrey, page 213
- ^ Appalachian History: Manuscript Resources in Special Collections, Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad Company
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