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Bamberg County, South Carolina

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

 

County Seat: Bamberg
Year Organized: 1897
Square Miles: 393		 Court House:

P.O. Box 149
County Courthouse
Bamberg, SC 29003-0149
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Bamberg County and its county seat, Bamberg, were named for local resident William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858) and other members of the Bamberg family.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Bamberg County and its county seat, Bamberg, were named for local resident William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858) and other members of the Bamberg family. The area was a part of Barnwell County until 1897 when the new county was established. Although the area has been primarily agricultural, several towns developed along the route of the South Carolina Railroad in the mid-nineteenth century. In February 1865 Confederate soldiers fought an unsuccessful skirmish against General Sherman's troops at Rivers Bridge, now the site of a state park. The plantation of author William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was in what is now Bamberg County, and artist Jim Harrison is also a native of the county.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 395 square miles (1,024 kmē), of which, 393 square miles (1,019 kmē) of it is land and 2 square miles (6 kmē) of it (0.56%) is water.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • Orangeburg County, South Carolina - north
  • Dorchester County, South Carolina - east
  • Colleton County, South Carolina - southeast
  • Hampton County, South Carolina - south
  • Allendale County, South Carolina - southwest
  • Barnwell County, South Carolina - west
Cities and Towns:
- Bamberg (County Seat) town Incorporated Area
- Denmark city Incorporated Area
- Ehrhardt town Incorporated Area
- Govan town Incorporated Area
- Olar town Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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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, act locally."
 

 

 

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