Main Street was made 316 feet wide by the City and the S.C. Highway Department after the C.&W.C. Railways Depot facilities were moved from this plot in 1949, under Mayor Paul B. Ellis, City Manager J.J. Rauch, Councilmen R.C. Herman, J.E. Greer, E.Y. McDonald, J.P. Childress, H.L. Reynolds, and J.S. Burnett, and S.C. Chief Highway Commissioner C.R. McMillan.