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Aiken County, South Carolina

Aiken County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Aiken
Year Organized: 1871
Square Miles: 1,073		 Court House:

828 Richland Avenue, W.
County Courthouse
Aiken, SC 29801-3834
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Aiken County and its county seat, the town of Aiken, were named for William Aiken (1806-1831), president of the South Carolina Railroad.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Aiken County and its county seat, the town of Aiken, were named for William Aiken (1806-1831), president of the South Carolina Railroad. The county was formed in 1871 from parts of Orangeburg, Lexington, Edgefield, and Barnwell counties. The area was sparsely settled until the 1830s,when the South Carolina Railroad was built connecting Charleston to the town of Hamburg on the Savannah River, with the town of Aiken being established as a depot. In the1870s Aiken became a winter resort for wealthy Northerners, and it remains popular with horse trainers and riders. The federal government chose Aiken County in the 1950s to be the site of a hydrogen bomb plant, the Savannah River Site. James F. Byrnes (1879-1972) began his legal and political careers in Aiken before going on to become United States Congressman and senator, secretary of state, Supreme Court justice, and governor of SouthCarolina. Other prominent residents of the county were William Gregg (1800-1867), who built the state's first textile mill at Graniteville in 1846, and governor and United States senator James Henry Hammond (1807-1864).

Geography

The county seat of Aiken County is Aiken, SC. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,080 square miles (2,798 kmē), of which, 1,073 square miles (2,778 kmē) of it is land and 8 square miles (20 kmē) of it (0.72%) is water.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • Saluda County, South Carolina - north
  • Lexington County, South Carolina - northeast
  • Orangeburg County, South Carolina - east
  • Barnwell County, South Carolina - south
  • Burke County, Georgia - southwest
  • Edgefield County, South Carolina - west
  • Richmond County, Georgia - west
Cities and Towns:
- Aiken (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Burnettown town Incorporated Area
- Jackson town Incorporated Area
- Monetta town Incorporated Area
- New Ellenton town Incorporated Area
- North Augusta city Incorporated Area
- Perry town Incorporated Area
- Salley town Incorporated Area
- Wagener town Incorporated Area
- Windsor town Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

Counties: US Map

The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 

 

 

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