Cope Station 21
by Joseph C Hinson
Title
Cope Station 21
Artist
Joseph C Hinson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The small hamlet of Cope, South Carolina was named after Jacob Martin Cope who sold a piece of his farmland for a town and train depot in the late 1800s. The depot was built in 1893. It was built by the Manchester and Augusta Railroad before being acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The depot is located along what is today the CSX Orangeburg Subdivision. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The last passenger train rolled out of Cope in the 1960s, but the town has recently refurbished the old depot and uses it for local events.
The Manchester and Augusta Railroad was chartered in the 1870s, and built a line from Sumter, South Carolina, southwest to Denmark, South Carolina passing through Cope. That railroad became part of the Atlantic Coast Line in 1898 and then part of Seaboard Cast Line in 1967. Current owner CSX is trying to find a buyer for the railroad tracks through town. There is a coal-fired power plant near the depot that still sees traffic
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April 10th, 2022
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