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Rockton and Rion Railroad Historic District, Fairfield County
(Between S.C. Hwy. 34 & S.C. Hwy. 213, Winnsboro vicinity)
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Anderson Quarry
1927 Blacksmith Shop
Anderson Quarry
Quarry Face
Anderson Quarry
Quarry Face
West View
Anderson Quarry
Quarry Face
North View
Anderson Quarry
Transformers
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Earle Eisenhower
House
Ernest Miner
House
Facade
Ernest Miner
House
Left Oblique
Ernest Miner
House
Garage
C. E. Glover
House
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C. E. Glover
House
Garage
Hobgood-Sellars
House
Hobgood-Sellars
House
Garage
Hobgood-Sellars
House
Pump House
John Sapp House
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Rockton & Rion
Railroad Line
Rockton & Rion
Railroad Line
at Anderson Quarry
Rockton & Rion
Railroad Line
cut east of
SC Hwy 63

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The Rockton and Rion Railroad Historic District is significant as a collection of buildings, sites, structures and objects associated with the quarrying, finishing, and transporting of Winnsboro blue granite between ca. 1883 and ca. 1945. The district is composed of forty-five properties located along the twelve mile stretch of the Rockton and Rion Railroad in south central Fairfield County. The district includes the Anderson and Rion Quarry sites, industrial buildings and structures associated with granite quarrying and finishing operations, residences constructed for management personnel at Anderson Quarry, the Rockton and Rion Railroad line and side tracks, two steam locomotives from the Rockton and Rion Railroad, and a ca. 1941 school building constructed of granite. The district retains sufficient integrity to reflect the history of the Winnsboro Granite Company and granite quarrying in the area between ca. 1883 and ca. 1945. The properties, with the exception of Greenbrier School, are grouped into two complexes, the Anderson Quarry-Phillips Granite Works and the Rion Granite Quarry-Brooks Granite Company. Most of the buildings and structures in the Historic District were constructed of Winnsboro blue granite, with the majority constructed from the late 1920s to the late 1930s. Listed in the National Register December 6, 1984.

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