Dataset: Freight income on the South Carolina Railroad, 1834-1857
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The Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD)
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Railroads
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
United States History
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
United States History
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south carolina
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2016-04-07
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Scholarly Commons, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Related resources
Aaron W. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), figure 9 and table 7 (pages 118-119).
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Abstract
This dataset provides monthly income from freight on the South Carolina Railroadand its predecessor companies, as given in the annual or semi-annual reports of those companies. The annual reports broke out up and down freight separately. The South Carolina Railroad initially ran from Charleston to Hamburg, SC, and was completed in 1833. A branch to Columbia opened in 1842 and to Camden in 1848.
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1834 is for May-October only, 1835 for July-December only, and 1843 for January-June only.