The Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad was a Southeastern railroad company that operated after

Reconstruction Reconstruction may refer to: Politics, history, and sociology *Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *'' Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Unio ...

. The company was originally chartered as the

Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad The Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad was a Southeastern railroad company chartered immediately after Reconstruction. The Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad was chartered in 1878 by the South Carolina General Asse ...

by the

South Carolina General Assembly The South Carolina General Assembly, also called the South Carolina Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The legislature is bicameral and consists of the lower South Carolina House of Representatives and t ...

in 1878.Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of South Carolina, Volume 30, 1889, page 588
/ref> The charter was amended in 1882 to strike "Narrow Gauge" from its name,Acts of the General Assembly of South-Carolina, 1882, page 961
/ref> and the line was renamed the Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad. The original intent was to build a line from

Georgetown, South Carolina Georgetown is the third oldest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina and the county seat of Georgetown County, South Carolina, Georgetown County, in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Lowcountry. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census ...

, through Georgetown, Williamsburg, Clarendon, Sumter and Kershaw counties, to the North Carolina border. Its In 1883, the line was to be rerouted so that it would be able to access Charleston Harbor. In 1885, the S.C. General Assembly approved changing the name of the Georgetown and North Carolina to the

Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad, informally known as the Triple C, was a Southeastern railroad that operated in the late 19th century. The company was formed in 1886 with the idea of extending a rail line from Charleston, South Car ...

Company.Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of South Carolina, Volume 30, 1889, page 589
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