The East Shore Terminal Company was a railroad company that operated along the

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

, waterfront in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The East Shore Terminal Company was in the business of transporting freight between trains and piers, "general wharfage business", and the compressing and storing of cotton, according to ''Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States''. In 1890 the East Shore Terminal Company was formed by a syndicate of outside railroad investors. The company received a 30-year franchise from the city of Charleston to construct a waterfront railroad spur. In January 1893, the company suffered $4,000 worth of losses when a fire raced through a Charleston wharf, destroying four train cars and track. In January 1896, a receiver was appointed for the company. As of 1898, the company owned three miles of track, along with 14 wharves, 30 warehouses, three cotton compresses and about 30 acres of property. In July 1903, the tracks, wharves and warehouses of the East Shore Terminal Company were sold at foreclosure and a new company was created, the

Charleston Terminal Company The Charleston Terminal Company was a transportation company that operated along the Charleston, South Carolina, waterfront in the early part of the 20th century. The Charleston Terminal Company traced its history back to the East Shore Terminal Co ...

.The Railway Age, Volume 38, 1904, page 538
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and the Southern Railway.

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