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Colleton County, South CarolinaColleton County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameColleton is named after John Colleton, one of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina.
Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts HistoryColleton County was named for one of the Lords Proprietors, Sir John Colleton (1608-1666). The county was first created in 1682 under the proprietary government, but the designation was seldom used in the colonial period. Instead, the area was known by its parish names: St. Bartholomew, St. Paul, and St. George Dorchester. In 1769 these parishes became part of Charleston District, where they remained until Colleton District was formed in 1800. A portion of the county was removed in 1897 to form Dorchester County. Several Revolutionary War skirmishes took place in Colleton County, and the state legislature met in the town of Jacksonboro in 1782 while Charleston was occupied by the British. This part of the lowcountry was known for its extensive rice and cotton plantations, many of which were bought by Northerners after the Civil War for use as hunting preserves; some of those lands are now being incorporated into the ACE Basin, a nature preserve bounded by the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto rivers. The Revolutionary War hero Isaac Hayne (1745-1781) was a Colleton resident, as were politicians Rawlins Lowndes (1721-1800) and William Lowndes (1782-1822). GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,133 square miles (2,935 kmē), of which,
1,056 square miles (2,736 kmē) of it is land and 77 square miles (199 kmē) of it (6.78%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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