Records, 1910-1968.

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Records, 1910-1968.

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Records of the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company (incomplete), which operated in North Carolina and South Carolina, 1910-1969. Materials includes operating reports and balance sheets, stockholder information, publications, legal documents, correspondence, and photographs. This collection contains various records of the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company and its predecessor lines, including the Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson Railway (which eventually became known as the South Carolina division) and the Piedmont Traction Company (which became the North Carolina division). Also includes information on streetcar systems operated by the P & N in Anderson, S.C., and Gastonia, N.C.

15 linear feet (ca. 27,000 items, including 32 v. and photographs)

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7567932

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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Piedmont and Northern Railway Company

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William States Lee, vice-president of Southern Power and Utilities Company (now Duke Power Company), proposed the creation of the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company in 1909. Southern Power's president, James B. Duke, approved of Lee's proposal and stock was first issued in 1911. Envisioned as an electric interurban linking the major cities of the Piedmont Carolinas, construction began in Charlotte in 1911 under the direction of Lee's brother, Arthur Carl Lee. A connection of the two routes wa...

Piedmont Traction Company.

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Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson Railway Company.

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