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. The name was changed to the Charleston, Sumter, and Northern Railroad in 1890 and the line from

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, to Charleston, South Carolina, was completed in 1891. That year the railway was connected to the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad at

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. The line went into receivership in 1892. The

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bought the Charleston, Sumter and Northern in October 1894,Railroad Men and Matters, October 14, 1894
/ref> and the following year reorganized the line as the Charleston and Northern Railroad to prevent it from being used by a competitor. The line was absorbed into the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, apparently in 1895. The track from the Santee River north to Sumter was sold to Tom Wilson's Northwestern Railroad of South Carolina.

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