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Charleston & Hamburg, The A South Carolina Railroad and an American Legacy SC
The Charleston and Hamburg A South Carolina Railroad and an American Legacy by Thomas Fetters
Soft Cover
Copyright 2008
156 Pages
Content
Acknowledgements9
Introduction11
A Friend in Need...Is a Friend Indeed!13
1831The First Year of Operation27
1832The Second Year of Operation37
1833-The Longest Railroad in the World43
1834-Building a Fleet of Locomotives53
The Possibility of Route Expansion61
1836-The C&H Rebuilds with T-Rail67
1837The End of the Charleston & Hamburg Rail Road71
1838-1843-The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road Years75
1843-1860The South Carolina Rail Road87
The War Between the States115
1865-1870-Rebuilding of the South Carolina Rail Road139
1870-1880Reconstruction149
Epilogue157
About the Author159
This book was prepared over a very long time, beginning with gathering information as far back as the 1950s. It would be impossible to call out everyone who helped with the project over fifty years, but perhaps the sophomore class world history teacher at the High School of Charleston was the most important, because as a transfer student I had to take this class to graduate. We all were required to do a paper on Sergeant Jasper. Virtually unknown outside of the Charleston area, this valiant soldier protected the inlet between the Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island on the Atlantic Coast from the invading British forces in the Revolutionary War period. This tidal inlet was treacherous and washed the Brits out to sea. I often rode over the bridge that connects the two islands and every time I doffed my hat, in imagination, to his gallant defense of the area. This teacher's assignment led directly to my quest to record the railroad history of the state of South Carolina in a very broad way to show the outside influences that bore on the railroads and how the railroads influenced the state's economy and progress.
I have worked on the history of South Carolina's railroads ever since, because the subject is not widely known and because it is fascinating in its own right.
Throughout the text, the numbers used in the roster lists of locomotives are my own. The locomotives were not assigned numbers by the Charleston & Hamburg Rail Road. Rebuilt locomotives have been given number and letter designations, as they are not new in the sense of a totally new machine.
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