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==Transportation== ===Highway=== * [[File:South Carolina 151.svg|30px]] [[South Carolina Highway 151]] is a state highway that runs northwest to southeast through the town. McBee is approximately the halfway point between [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]] and [[Myrtle Beach, South Carolina|Myrtle Beach]]. * [[File:US 1.svg|30px]] [[U.S. Route 1]] runs southwest to northeast through the town. The road runs from [[Fort Kent, Maine]], to [[Key West, Florida]]. In 1945, the straight of U.S. Route 1 going through McBee was named a Blue Star Memorial Highway Number 6. ===Railroads=== * On January 1, 1900, McBee was reached by the railroad! In September 1899 construction had begun on the Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad starting in Cheraw. Construction was completed to Camden by May 10, 1900, by the Raleigh and Gaston RR, 55 miles. Both railroad companies were merged into the new Seaboard Air Line Railway November 1, 1901. (Cariker, S. David, 1985, "Railroading in the Carolina Sandhills: Volume 1", page 119.) * In July 1902 McBee became the starting point of construction of the Columbia, Monroe, and Charlotte Railroad, just south of Poplar Avenue. It was completed in 1903 from McBee to Junction, Diggs, Lee, Clark [Angelus], Miller and Jefferson, 17.16 miles. It came under Seaboard Air Line control April 6, 1914, but never with a profitably year. It operated 38 years until February 3, 1940, and was formally abandoned October 24, 1940, and dismantled in 1945. (Cariker, S. David, 1987, "Railroading in the Carolina Sandhills: Volume 2", page 32-33, 124.) * On March 30, 1910, McBee became the starting point of construction of the South Carolina Western Railway, just north of Poplar Avenue. It was completed and opened January 1, 1911, to Hartsville. The company was absorbed into the Seaboard Air Line April 6, 1914. The line has been in service until recently and is slated to be dismantled in 2024. (Cariker, S. David, 1987, "Railroading in the Carolina Sandhills: Volume 2, page 84")
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