Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley

Company History: The CF&YV was the result of the 1879 merger of the Western Railroad of North Carolina and the Mount Airy & Ore Knob, the latter of which was graded but as yet had no track. By 1894 the CF&YV had built to Red Springs and Bennettsville in South Carolina and to Greensboro, Mount Airy and Wilmington, North Carolina. At that point, they had 331 miles of line but construction debt was threatening to wreck the company. In 1899 the company was sold first to the Wilmington & Weldon and then to Southern Railway. Southern sold the lines south of Sanford back to the W&W and established the Atlantic & Yadkin to operate the lines north of Sanford.

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