Nevils Station stood on the Shearwood Railroad, whose original bed is now the paved road from Denmark to Nevils. The line existed from 1912 until 1937 and was developed by John N. Shearhouse of Brooklet and George Brinson of Stillmore, owners of the Shearwood Lumber Company in Brooklet, who began by opening the route from Clyo to Claxton. Farmers in the Nevils area promised a large sum of money to bring the line through the Sinkhole District, and the railroad acquired right-of-way from Jake Nevils, the area's first merchant. Farmers relied on Nevils Station to ship carloads of watermelons and receive tons of fertilizer, and many residents began excursions to Savannah and Tybee there after buying picnic supplies at Mr. Nevils' nearby store. The SR also operated a morning passenger-freight train leaving Egypt and serving Leefield, Brooklet, Denmark, Nevils, Claxton, and Hagan. After Shearhouse was killed and his son seriously injured in a railroad accident in 1926, the railroad declined during the Great Depression of the 1930s and dissolved, and its tracks and equipment were removed and sold for scrap. The depot later served as a country store after 1945 but was eventually deserted.