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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 ...
Chartered under act of the South Carolina General Assembly of December 19, 1827, the company operated its first 6-mile (9.7 km) line west from Charleston, South Carolina in 1830. The railroad ran scheduled steam service over its 136-mile (219 km) line from Charleston, South Carolina, to Hamburg, South Carolina, beginning in 1833. [2]
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
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 ...
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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.
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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.