Claim: Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway was an independent railroad created in 1897 with lines from Wilmington, North Carolina to Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Evidence: The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway was a Southeastern railroad that operated in the Carolinas immediately after Reconstruction. By 1899, the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway was debt-ridden and bankrupt and was sold to the Southern Railway, where it was reorganized as a new company under the name Atlantic and Yadkin Railway.