Southern Railway Depot (Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina)
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Southern Railway Depot, August 2012 | |
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| Location | SE corner of Perry and Wilson Sts., Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 33°54′22″N 81°32′33″W / 33.90611°N 81.54250°WCoordinates: 33°54′22″N 81°32′33″W / 33.90611°N 81.54250°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1900 |
| MPS | Batesburg-Leesville MRA |
| NRHP Reference # | 83002202[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 27, 1983 |
Southern Railway Depot, also known as the Batesburg Boy Scout Hut, is a historic train station located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1900 by the Southern Railway, and is a one-story weatherboarded frame building with a bellcast hip roof. It has patterned metal shingle roofing and sawn wooden brackets supporting the deep eaves. It was relocated from its original location to its present site about 1960 and used as a meeting place for local Boy Scouts.[2][3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
References
- 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ unknown (n.d.). "Southern Railway Depot" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014.
- ↑ "Southern Railway Depot, Lexington County (Perry & Wilson Sts., Batesburg)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 2014.
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