Inventory of the Carolina Central Railway Company Records, 1873-1883
Collection Number 4278
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Carolina Central Railway Company.
- Title
- Carolina Central Railway Company Records, 1873-1883.
- Call Number
- 4278
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 550 items (1.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Carolina Central Railway Company Records, #4278, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Carolina Central Railway Company.
- Industries--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Industries--North Carolina--Wilmington--History--19th century.
- Railroads--Management.
- Railroads--North Carolina--Finance.
- Railroads--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Roberts, Charles H.
- Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railway Company.
Biographical Note
In 1873, the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherfordton Railroad was reorganized as the Carolina Central Railway Company. In 1875, a line was completed to Shelby, N.C.
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Correspondence, financial and legal material, and other records, of the railroad and its officials in Wilmington, N.C., and New York, N.Y., particularly Charles H. Roberts (born 1821), president. Principally consisting of intra-company correspondence, the records chiefly relate to railroad management, financial matters, and bond sales.