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The Aiken Railway has roots going all the way back to 1827 when the South Carolina General Assembly chartered the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, one of the first railroads in the United States and the longest railroad in the world - 136 miles - at its inception. Aiken itself was founded as a stopover on the SCC&RR, which was ...
William Aiken House, built in 1807. An octagonal wing added in 1831 but damaged in 1886 earthquake, and certain woodwork was removed in 1931. A servants wing is unchanged. A coach house at the back of gardens on the William Aiken House property; Camden Depot, a railroad depot; Deans Warehouse, built in 1856; South Carolina Railroad Warehouse
William Aiken Sr. (1779 – May 5, 1831) was the founder and president of the pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company. [1]Born in County Antrim, Ireland, he immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina at age 10.
Sep. 25—The construction of the Charleston & Hamburg Railroad in the 1830s was an unprecedented engineering feat. Its builder was the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, and Aiken, a stop ...
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. [1]
The Old Aiken Post Office in downtown Aiken. The municipality of Aiken was incorporated on December 19, 1835. The community formed around the terminus of the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, a rail line from Charleston to the Savannah River, and was named for William Aiken, the railroad's first president.
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad: SOU: 1894 1902 Southern Railway – Carolina Division: South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad: SOU: 1898 1902 Southern Railway – Carolina Division: South Carolina Pacific Railway: ACL: 1882 1984 Seaboard System Railroad: South Carolina Terminal Company: ACL/ SOU: 1893 1903 Charleston Terminal ...
In 1879, the charter of the Edgefield Branch Railroad was amended to change the line's name to the Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad Company. The Edgefield Branch Railroad was incorporated to build a railroad line between Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, to Trenton, South Carolina, where it could connect with the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.