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Allendale County, South Carolina
Allendale County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Allendale
Year Organized: 1919
Square Miles: 408
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Court House: P.O. Box 190
County Courthouse
Allendale, SC 29810-0190
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Allendale County and its county seat of Allendale were named
for the Allen family, one of whose members, Paul Allen, was the town's first
postmaster.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Allendale County and its county seat
of Allendale were named for the Allen family, one of whose members, Paul Allen,
was the town's first postmaster. The county is South Carolina's youngest; it was
formed in 1919 from parts of Barnwell and Hampton counties. The area was settled
in the mid-eighteenth century by English, German, and Scotch-Irish farmers, and
it remains primarily agricultural. The plantation of Confederate general Johnson
Hagood (1829-1898) was in what is now Allendale County, and the artist Jasper
Johns spent his childhood years in Allendale.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 413 square miles (1,069 kmē), of which, 408
square miles (1,057 kmē) of it is land and 4 square miles (11 kmē) of it (1.06%) is water.
Allendale is primarily an agricultural rural county. Its primary products are cotton, soybeans, watermelon and
cantaloupe. Timbering is also important, primarily for paper pulp.
The Savannah River forms the county's western border with Georgia.
Neighboring Counties:
- Bamberg County, South Carolina - northeast
- Colleton County, South Carolina - east
- Hampton County, South Carolina - southeast
- Screven County, Georgia - southwest
- Burke County, Georgia - west
- Barnwell County, South Carolina - northwest
Cities and Towns:
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- Allendale
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- Fairfax |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sycamore |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ulmer |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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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,
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