City Directories and History: The historic South Carolina Railroad Depot in Columbia……see the railroad route in 1854; enlargement below. Railroad service connected to Charleston but was primarily built to connect Columbia, S.C. to Charlotte, N.C.
The Yorkville Enquirer reported on April 20, 1882 – “Supt. of Immigration for S.C. reports that within the last month three families of Hebrew refugees have been placed at the Charleston Cotton Factory, two families of Bohemians in Richland County, two families of Germans in Due West, and one family of Poles in Charleston.”
The Fort Mill Times as of Sept. 9, 1903 reported, ” that W.M. Vandiver was at the Southern Station this morning and remarked that he ran the first engine that ever pulled a mail train on the old Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. This was on Nov. 5, 1850, and the train ran twenty miles in this direction from Columbia.”
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