City Directories and History: Click on the MORE INFORMATION / MAPS links, found under the primary picture, to see an enlargeable postal maps (sections North and South), of the county Post Office locations in 1896. Enter the specific name in R&R’s search box to locate additional information on each of these locations found on R&R’s pages. (Old Postal Maps – Richland County, S.C.)
LIST OF LOCATIONS:
Columbia |
Littleton |
Lever |
Pleasant |
Killian or Killian’s Mill |
Spear |
Hopkins Turnout |
Lykesland |
Congaree |
Eastover |
Weston |
Gadsden |
Acton |
Wateree |
Kingsville – The Rock Hill Herald reported on Sept. 13, 1888 – “The S.C. Railway bridge at Kingsville is in danger of being swept away by the flood of the Congaree River. Capt. T.E. Hardeman, the builder of the 3C’s bridge, left here to see if he could help save the bridge.” |
In the June 2, 1854, issue of The Western Democrat, we find this advertisement soliciting bids for supplying wood at the various stops along the rail line aforesaid. Frederick Nims, general superintendent of the Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad (with an office in Columbia), signed the advertisement and specified the locations of the various wood piles maintained by the railroad:
— Killian’s Mill (Richland Co)
— Campbell’s Mill (Unknown)
— Ridgeway
— Simpson’s
— Robertson’s
— Winnsboro
— Albion (?)
— White Oak
— Youngsville
— Blackstock
— Cornwell
— Chesterville
— Lewis T. O.
— Smith’s T. O.
— Ebenezer / Rock Hill (Along the Landsford Road, by Wm. B. White, Jr. Vol., I – 2008)
The Rock Hill Record reported on March 11, 1909 – “That there was a fire at Charmont, a station on the 3CCC RR between Camden and Kingsville. The depot, 36 bales of cotton, a pumping station, four box cars, seed houses and a barn belonging to Mr. Arthur Jackson were all burned.”
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