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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Alexander Boyd Andrews Papers, #3245, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Augusta Andrews Young of Desert Hot Springs, Calif., November 1956.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Andrews family.
• Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1841-1915.
• Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company.
• Chatham Railroad Company (N.C.).
• Cotton--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Ferries--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Gaston (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Hawkins family.
• Johnston family.
• Railroads--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company.
• Richmond and Danville Railroad Company.
• Southern Railway (U.S.)
• Tenant farmers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Western North Carolina Railroad Company.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

• Alexander Boyd Andrews II Papers (#2412), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Papers, 1859-1891, consist of correspondence and other business papers of Alexander B. Andrews relating to his career as a railroad executive and capitalist. Also included are a scattering of personal and family letters, personal bills and accounts, and papers relating to the planting of cotton and the selling of that crops through Baltimore, Md., commission merchants.

The business papers are chiefly communications addressed to Alexander Boyd Andrews, or addressed to other railroad officers and referred to Andrews; also bills, routine reports and monthly returns, receipts and bills of lading.

The correspondence includes complaints and claims for losses and damage of freight shipments; applications for positions; requests for special arrangements in connection with freight rates, passenger excursion rates and individual passes; reports of accidents and damage to tracks and trestles; arrangements for right of way for new tracks; personnel problems; traffic of freight cars and schedule problems; rate agreements; negotiations with dealers in equipment for railroads, wood, and other purchases; continual communication with other railroads about freight shipments, schedule connections, rates, competition, and policies; storekeeping and housing for railroad laborers.

The earlier papers relate to railroad construction and specific arrangements for and the volume of business of the ferry at Gaston, N.C., including records of individual agents, boatmen, and other employees. Between 1867 and 1874, when Andrews was superintendent of Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, he was in constant communication with the agents at the stations on the line at Raleigh, Neuse, Wake, Franklinton, Kittrells, Henderson, Junction, Ridgeway, Warrenton, Macon, Littleton, Gaston, and Weldon, N.C.

The sixteen volumes include records relating to the operation of the ferry at Gaston, N.C., in 1866; farm records and accounts; personal and bank accounts; two volumes relating to Mrs. Andrews's housekeeping and church work, and a volume of family data pertaining to the Andrews, Johnston, and Hawkins families.

There are also tables of rates, storekeepers' reports, packages of rountine bills of lading, graphs, printed notices of schedules, rates, routes, sale of railroad bonds and a group of printed advertisements for specialized railroad equipment.

Rolled item (R-3245/1).