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*1899 acquired by Southern Railway. 1891 merger of the Barnwell Railroad with the Perry to Blackville line acquired from the Blackville, Alston & Newberry Railroad. + 1891 - Extended the line from Barnwell to Allendale. + 1899 - Began a second line from Cayce to Perry. The Carolina Midland Railway joined its acquisitions end-to-end in Blackville to form one north-south line that crossed the east-west Charleston-Hamburg line of the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad at a diamond just west of downtown. A two-sided Union Station was built in Blackville facing the diamond, so that its platforms could serve both railroads. Some significant payloads of cotton and cottonseed oil apparently originated in Barnwell in the early 20th century, where cotton platforms and at least one cottonseed oil works used the line. In 1899 CMR began a branch line from the Columbia-Augusta line in Cayce, across Lexington County and the North Fork Edisto River into Aiken County, to join the existing line at Perry just east of Wagener. A number of whistle stops in central and western Lexington County and eastern Aiken County were created along this branch line. A company officer's daughter gave them names derived from mythology, such as Thor. This second line was completed right after Southern Railway acquired the Carolina Midland Railway in 1899. Click Here for photos and more info. |
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Towns on Route: Allendale Sieglingville > Seiglinville (1907) Thomas Kline Morris Barnwell Capers Blackville Monie Whaley Aldrich Springfield Salley Perry Wagener Seivern 2nd Line - Cayce to Perry (started 1899): Cayce (1901) Edmund (1900) Pelion (1900) Thor (1900) Berlin Perry |
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