Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad

The Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad was a Southern United States railroad that served South Carolina and North Carolina in the years after the American Civil War.

The line was chartered in 1873[1] and in 1874 the Spartanburg and Asheville was consolidated with the Greenville and French Broad Railroad, a North Carolina line.[2]

The line between Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Hendersonville, North Carolina, opened in 1879.[3] It was sold under foreclosure in 1881 and reorganized under the Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad that same year.[4]

The 21-mile distance between Hendersonville and Asheville, North Carolina, was completed in 1886.[5] By that point, the line was operated as part of the Richmond and Danville Railroad until 1894 and controlled by the Southern Railway afterward.[6]

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