The Blue Ridge Railroad: Letters of Mr. George A. Trenholm and Mr. William Gregg on That Subject - Accession 1208 - M575 (628)

The collection consists of a booklet of letters to the editor from George A. Trenholm and William Gregg concerning The Blue Ridge Railroad. This railroad was to be built to complete the connection of the line that was to run from Charleston, SC to Cincinnati, Ohio. This line would have run from Anderson, SC to Knoxville, TN. Construction began in 1854 and ceased just before the beginning of the Civil War. The railroad was never completed. The letters appeared in the Edgefield Advertiser, Charleston Courier, and Charleston Mercury in 1860.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1961/thumbnail.jp