title: Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad
text: # Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad
  
  The Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad was a Carolinian railroad company, chartered shortly after the end of the Reconstruction Era of the United States.
  
  ## Creation
  
  The Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad was created by an act of the South Carolina General Assembly in 1878.
  
  ## Name change
  
  The following year (1879) its name was changed to the Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad Company of South Carolina.
  
  