McBee station

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Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee
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Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee, August 2012
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LocationW. Pine Ave., NW of jct. of SC 151 and US 1, McBee, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°28′9″N80°15′27″W / 34.46917°N 80.25750°W / 34.46917; -80.25750
Arealess than one acre
Built1914 (1914)
ArchitectGrundy, J.D.
NRHP reference No. 99000103 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 2, 1999

Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee is a historic train station located at McBee, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was built in 1914, and is a one-story, red brick building in a modified rectangular plan. It has a sharply pitched hipped roof. After Seaboard discontinued passenger service in the 1960s, the McBee depot stood unused until the 1980s when the building was restored for use as the McBee Depot Library and Railroad Museum. [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]

Preceding station Seaboard Air Line Railroad Following station
Bethune
toward Tampa or Miami
Main Line Middendorf
toward Richmond
Terminus South Carolina Western Railway Hartsville
toward Poston

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Daniel J. Vivian (May 1998). "Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  3. "Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee, Chesterfield County (West Pine Ave., McBee)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 17 March 2014.