Source Identification
Report: Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of South Carolina.
Reporting year: Year ending December 31, 1915.
Publication: Columbia, South Carolina, 1916.
Relevant printed pages: 1298–1300.
Poston Route Evidence
The report includes route headings “Between Hamlet, N. C., and Poston, S. C.,” “Between Andrews, S. C., and Poston, S. C.,” and “Between McBee, S. C., and Poston, S. C.” Poston appears as a terminal/station, including “Poston, S.C. — 31.0 miles” on page 1299. Page 1300 includes a route through Hartsville, Darlington, Florence, Pamplico, Waring, Kingsburg, and Poston.
Railroad-System Context
The report explains that the Carolina, Atlantic & Western Railway and Georgetown & Western Railway had been acquired by the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company and operated within the Seaboard system. This helps reconcile the Georgetown & Western name on the 1912 plat with the Seaboard Air Line language in the 1916 newspaper notice.
OCR Caution
Machine OCR may render “Poston” incorrectly in places. The scanned page image should control when OCR and image disagree.
Documentary Archive Record
The Poston Family Archive preserves a separate record-level citation and evidence-status page for this source.