 At the company's 1869 annual meeting stockholders approved changing the name of the carrier to Cheraw and Salisbury.The carrier was originally charged with building a line between Cheraw and Salisbury, North Carolina, a distance of approximately 80 miles.The line began operation in 1868 and by the early 1870s, according to the 1873 American Railroad Manual for the United States and the Dominion, track had been laid between Cheraw and Wadesboro, a distance of 23 miles.