South Carolina Railroads - Manchester & Augusta Railroad




South Carolina Railroads - Manchester & Augusta Railroad

Acronym	Year Chartered or Incorporated	Year Line Operational	Year Service Ended	Original Starting Point	Original Ending Point
M&A RR	1875	1894	1897*	Sumter, SC	Denmark, SC

*1897 merged into the Atlantic Coast Line of South Carolina. The Manchester & Augusta Railroad was chartered in 1875, and built a line from Sumter southwest to Denmark within South Carolina. On June 30, 1899, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad of South Carolina opened an extension west-southwest to the Charleston & Western Carolina Railway at the town of Robbins. From an August 30, 1894 Page 2 article in the New York Times: Railroad Men and Matters - By the completion of the Manchester and Augusta Railroad from Sumter, S.C., to Denmark the Atlantic Coast Line will put in operation Sept. 3 their new fast short line train service to Aiken, S.C., Augusta, Macon and South-west Georgia points. Click Here for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History's webpage with photos and information on one of the M&A RR's stations at Cope, SC.

Towns on Route: Sumter Ramsey Station Tindal Pinewood > Clarendon (1900) > Pinewood (1910) Rimini Lonestar (1891) Creston (1896) Haigler > Cameron (1894) Orangeburg Cordova (1894) Cope (1894) Denmark (1892) Line Extension - Denmark to Robbins (1899): Denmark Hilda (1899) Barnwell Snelling Donora (1911) Dunbarton Myers Mill (1900s) Robbins