TRANSPORTATION · HISTORICAL MARKER

Historic Spencer Shops

Spencer, North Carolina
Historical Marker Database · Michael C. Wilcox
Transportation
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Southern Railway Company gave the property and buildings that had formerly housed Southern's largest steam locomotive servicing facility to the State of North Carolina in 1977, and Historic Spencer Shops, North Carolina's Transportation Museum, is administered by the Division of Archives and History of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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Spencer, North Carolina · United States

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