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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.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Terry Alford of Springfield, Va., July 1981.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• 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.

In 1873, the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherfordton Railroad was reorganized as the Carolina Central Railway Company. In 1875, the company completed a line to Shelby, N.C. The company was placed into receivership in 1877, with Henry Decker as administrator, and was later reorganized as the Carolina Central Railroad Company, 1880.

The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal material, and other records, of the Carolina Central Railway Company and its officials in Wilmington, N.C., and New York, N.Y., particularly Charles H. Roberts (born 1821), president. Chiefly consisting of intra-company correspondence, the records primarily relate to railroad management, financial matters, and bond sales. Other topics include policy decisions, progress of line construction, land title and land acquisition matters, court cases, political and appointment battles, the state of business along the line, and the affairs of other railroads in the state, particularly the North Carolina Railroad. Principal correspondents include Edward Matthews and Watson Matthews. There is also a list of company stockholders and scattered statements, balance sheets, reports, estimates, receipts, and bond notices.

Photograph (P-4278/Folder 1).