Branchville junction
Rail junction, Branchville, South Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Rail junction
- Where
- Branchville, South Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Museum
BRANCHVILLE JUNCTION
Junction on the South Carolina Railroad, halfway between Charleston and Hamburg. Confederate soldiers from Charleston used the lines in 1865. During Sherman's march through South Carolina, Union troops turned away on learning of a Confederate battery there, which spared the roadbed and structures.
Then
Branchville, halfway between Charleston and Hamburg, grew from land bought from the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company. Confederate soldiers from Charleston used the lines in 1865.
During Sherman's march through South Carolina, Union troops turned away from Branchville on learning of a Confederate battery there, which spared the roadbed and structures.
Now
Museum
Trench work and part of the battery survive, and the 1877 depot houses the Branchville Railroad Shrine and Museum.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Norfolk Southern.
Served by
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