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BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Original Acquisition:
Series IX, BLACK MOUNTAIN RAILWAY, 1913-1954, Boxes 207-212.
This series consists of ledgers, financial statements, freight receipts, abandonment summaries, correspondence, payroll lists, agreements, and accident investigations of the Black Mountain Railway. This railway company was purchased by the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway and later abandoned. These files are arranged alphabetically through box 207, folder 6, and then by files number from that point.
Box 207
1. Claims, personal injury and fire, August 1913-August 1917.
2. Claims, personal injury and fire, June 1919-August 1949.
3. Financial Statements, January 1931-July 1936.
4. Freight Received, January 1936-July 1936.
5. Industries and areas served, January 1931-September 1936.
6. Operating Income Statement, June 1915-August 1920.
7. #18 General, April 1914-December 1914.
8. #18 General, January 1915.
9. #18 General, February 1915-April 1915.
Box 208
1. #18 General, May 1915-June 1915.
2. #18 General, July 1915-August 1915.
3. #18 General, September 1915.
4. #18 General, October 1915.
Box 209
1. #18 General, November 1915-December 1915.
2. #18 General, January 16-March 1916.
3. #18 General, April 1916-May 1916.
4. #18 General, June 1916-September 1916.
5. #627-1-0-1 Abandonment, December 1951-May 1953.
Box 210
1. #627-2 Charles Gardner lawsuit, September 1933-October 1935.
2. #627-3 Ernest Gardner lawsuit, March 1934-July 1934.
3. #627-4 Accidents and injuries, October 1937-September 1951.
4. #627-5 Agreements, October 1923-November 1954.
5. #627-6 Payroll, October 1938-November 1942.
6. #627-6 Payroll, February 1943-January 1952.
7. #627-7-1 General Operation Agencies, April 1937-December 1942.
Box 211
1. #627-7-1 General Operation Agencies, November 1943-December 1945.
2. #627-7-1 General Operation Agencies, March 1946-April 1954.
3. #627-8 Fuel, July 1941-March 1955.
4. #888-1 Abandonment, January 1951-October 1951.
5. #888-1 Abandonment, November 1951-January 1952.
6. #888-1 Abandonment, February 1952-May 1952.
Box 212
1. #888-1 Abandonment, May 1952-April 1953.
2. #888-1 Abandonment, April 1953-December 1953.
3. #888-1 Abandonment, March 1955-April 1955.
4. #888-2 Scrap metal requests, January 1952-March 1956.
5. #888-3 Abandonment, September 1947-November 1954.
6. #5013 General Operation of Railroad, June 1933-September 1944.
First Addendum
Series IX, BLACK MOUNTAIN RAILWAY, 1912-1956, Box 288.
This series contains correspondence, agreements, balance sheets, budgets, and
board of director's meeting minutes concerning election of officers, tax assessments,
financing and abandonment of Black Mountain Railway. The papers are in reverse
chronological order within a single folder.
Box 288
2. Black Mountain Railway Company, Sundry Papers, 1926-55.
Second Addendum
Series IX, BLACK MOUNTAIN RAILWAY, 1913-1954, Ledgers 26-47 and Box 361.
Series IX contains general ledgers, cash disbursement ledger, trial balance
ledgers, journal entries, and a journal entries-Federal book of the Black Mountain
Railway dating between 1920 and 1950. In addition to these ledgers and journals
there is one Hollinger box containing loose accounting sheets for the retirement
fund deductions and railroad retirement contributions of the Clinchfield Railroad
Company and Black Mountain Railway Company dating between 1934 and 1936. The
ledgers and journals are arranged first by the type of account book and then
chronologically by the first date entered into each. The loose accounting sheets
are filed in a Hollinger box at the end of the series, and the folders are arranged
chronologically by the first date of each folder's span date.
Ledgers
26. Cash Disbursement Ledger: Black Mountain Railway, January 1921-February
1950.
27. General Ledgers No. 3: Black Mountain Railway, January 1922-27.
28. General Ledgers No. 4: Black Mountain Railway, January 1928-36.
29. General Ledgers No. 5: Black Mountain Railway, January 1937- December 1943.
30. General Ledgers No. 6: Black Mountain Railway, January 1944- December 1951.
31. General Ledgers No. : Black Mountain Railway, January 1952- March 1955.
32. Journal Entries 1-641: Black Mountain Railway, February 1920- December 1922.
33. Journal Entries 642-1518: Black Mountain Railway, January 1923-December
1926.
34. Journal Entries 1519-2186: Black Mountain Railway, January 1927-December
1929.
35. Journal Entries 2187-2976: Black Mountain Railway, January 1930-December
1933.
36. Journal Entries 2977-3774: Black Mountain Railway, January 1934-December
1937.
37. Journal Entries 3775-4544: Black Mountain Railway, January 1938-December
1941.
38. Journal Entries 4545-5396: Black Mountain Railway, January 1942-December
1945.
39. Journal Entries 5397-6285: Black Mountain Railway, January 1946-December
1949.
40. Journal Entries 6286-7144: Black Mountain Railway, January 1950-December
1953.
41. Journal Entries 7145-7560: Black Mountain Railway, January 1954-August 1958.
42. Journal Entries-Federal Book 1-434: Black Mountain Railway, January 1918-September
1923.
43. Trial Balance Ledgers: Black Mountain Railway, 1920-21.
44. Trial Balance Ledgers: Black Mountain Railway, 1922.
45. Trial Balance Ledgers: Black Mountain Railway, 1923-25.
46. Trial Balance Ledgers: Black Mountain Railway, 1926-27.
47. Trial Balance Ledgers: Black Mountain Railway, 1928.
Box 361
1. Clinchfield Railroad Company and Black mountain Railway Company-Retirement
Fund Deductions, 1934-35.
2. Railroad Retirement contributions-Clinchfield Railroad Company and Black
mountain Railway Company, December 1936.