to Richmond Banks by 1910, although some has never been accounted for. The unrecovered gold probably ended up in a Bank in Charleston, SC with a mysterious Rhett Butler figure who was treasurer of the Confederacy and who became inexplicably rich after the Civil War running a bank in Charleston. Construction Work in earnest began before the Civil War, much of it done with slave labor as well as that of paid Scots-Irish and German Immigrants (who founded the town of Walhalla). The road was finished as far as the Stumphouse Mountain area (in Oconee County) where a tunnel through the mountain was begun before the war brought a halt to the project. Supposedly, the tunnel was being dug and blasted from both sides of the mountain but this writer has not found the roadbed from the other side, although there are shafts cut from above into the tunnel which one can fall into if one is not familiar with the top of the mountain. The other side of the tunnel is now under Crystal Lake. Some of the road bed can be found near this lake which is a few miles up the road from Stumphouse Mountain. Locals state that prior to flooding the tunnel still contained tools and iron from the original construction. Closure The railway ceased to exist around 1890 as the Blue Ridge Railway and went into foreclosure. Some of the tracks were taken over by Richmond and Danville Railroad which continued the tracks to Atlanta and in 2006 is still operational after more than 100 years of service. The tracks from Columbia still exist and are used by successive companies. However, the tracks that ran from Abbeville to Augusta, SC(or Hamburg) sit abandoned and rotting and are basically unusable, creating at the same time modern South Carolina ghost towns, or towns on the verge of being so, especially between Abbeville and McCormick, SC. The Belton route tracks are in 2006 still functional, at least in the Greenville area. Cheese-making The uncompleted Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel remains and was used for many years as an ideal place to make and store blue cheese by Clemson University (formerly Clemson College). This cheese is and was genuine Roquefort except for the place of origin. During World War I, a Clemson professor had obtained the native strain of spores of Penicillium roquefortii in Roquefort, France and thus began the Clemson