Narrow Gauge Locomotive No. 7

Narrow Gauge Locomotive No. 7 is a South Carolina historical marker in Hardeeville, Jasper County, dedicated 1991.

Jasper County · dedicated 1991 · in park at the intersection of Main & Charles Sts., Hardeeville, Hardeeville

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This woodburning steam locomotive with balloon smoke stack, was built by the H. K. Porter Company about 1910. It was used by Argent Lumber Company, a leading area employer established in 1916, to haul timber from forest to mill. In 1960 the locomotive was donated to the Town of Hardeeville for public display as a logging and lumbering relic of this area

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Town of Hardeeville

Narrow Gauge Locomotive No. 7

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