Batesburg station explained

Southern Railway Depot
Location:SE corner of Perry and Wilson Sts., Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina
Coordinates:33.9061°N -81.5425°W
Built:c.
Added:May 27, 1983
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:83002202

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.[1] [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: unknown . Southern Railway Depot . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d. . pdf . June 15, 2014.
  2. Web site: Southern Railway Depot, Lexington County (Perry & Wilson Sts., Batesburg). National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . June 15, 2014.