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North Carolina Midland Railroad: Dan Valley and Yadkin River Narrow Gauge Railroad: SOU: 1881 1883 North Carolina Midland Railroad: Danville, Mocksville and Southwestern Railroad: SOU: 1880 1899 Danville and Western Railway: Danville and New River Railroad: SOU: 1873 1890 Danville and Western Railway: Danville and Western Railway: D&W SOU: 1891 ...
Railroad companies in the North and Midwest constructed networks that linked nearly every major city by 1860. In the heavily settled Corn Belt (from Ohio to Iowa), over 80 percent of farms were within 5 miles (8.0 km) of a railway.
The railroad completed construction of 45.29 miles (72.89 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) [3] gauge railroad line between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Statesville, North Carolina, in 1860. [4] Some time in 1863, the Confederate States of America dismantled the railroad and used it in construction of the Piedmont Railroad as a matter of military ...
"The Virginia Southwestern Railroad System at War, 1861-1865," North Carolina Historical Review (1947) 24#4 pp. 467–484 in JSTOR Turner, George E. Victory Rode the Rails The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War (1953)
The Western Railroad was a railroad in North Carolina connecting Fayetteville to the coal fields of Egypt (now Cumnock). [1] [2] [3]A group of Fayetteville citizens obtained a charter from the North Carolina legislature in December 1852 to construct a railroad from Fayetteville to the coal fields of Chatham County (now Chatham, Moore, and Lee counties).
The Florence and Fayetteville Railroad was a Southeastern railroad that operated during and after the American Civil War. The Florence and Fayetteville was chartered by both South Carolina and North Carolina in 1861. [1] [2]
Paul C. Cameron (1808–1891) was an American judge, railroad builder, and a wealthy plantation and slaveholders in North Carolina. [1] When his father left him the business in the late 1800s, [1] Cameron oversaw the work of 470 slaves across 12,475 acres of land mostly in North Carolina.
Fremont, North Carolina, is named in his honor. During the American Civil War, the railroad was used heavily by the Confederacy for transporting troops and supplies. The railroad also played a key role in the Siege of Petersburg. The cities of Wilmington and Goldsboro fell in 1865 at the end of the war, and the railroad was badly damaged. [6]