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tablislied, two large saw mills, aiul three large manufacturing mills for 

 the manufacture of phosphate rock into fertilizers. 



BERKELEY COUNTY. 



On the coast of Berkeley County there are twenty-nine stores, to wit : 

 Edisto Island, nine ; Eockville, one ; Enterprise, seven ; Mount Pleasant, 

 nine ; Cainhoy, three. These are all groceries, or stores keeping general 

 merchandise. The estimated wealth of the storekeepers is placed at 

 S104,500, and one of them is a colored person. 



MOUNT PLEASANT, 



the county seat, is on the north shore of Charleston harbor, three and a 

 half miles from the city. Its front beach extends one and a half miles 

 along the harbor, of which it commands a fine view, its width varies 

 from four hundred to one thousand yards. Population, 783. Location 

 high, dry and remarkably healthy. Excellent water is obljained from 

 wells thirty feet in depth. About four miles of streets are laid with 

 shell and well kept. The place has long been a pleasure and health 

 resort for the planters of Christ Church parish and the people of Charles- 

 ton. The Alhambra Hall, surrounded by a grove of live oak, is used for 

 public entertainments, and there are two other halls, St. George's and 

 the British Masonic. A park of ten acres has been laid out, and the 

 county buildings will shortly be erected. The whites have an Episcopal 

 and a Presbyterian church, and the colored people have a Methodist, 

 Baptist, Presbyterian, and free church. There is also a two-story school 

 house, and an orphan asylum for colored children— -private charities. 

 Stores and dwellings rent for $10 to $20 a month. The tax assessment 

 values the property at $182,275 for real estate, and $12,000 for personal, 

 on which a tax of one-half cent is levied. Truck farming is largely and 

 profitably engaged in ; as an instance, the cabbages alone from one farm 

 of eleven acres sold for $10,500 in 1881. Near by is a large saw-mill, and 

 an extensive brick and tile factory. There are nine stores, owned chiefly 

 by Germans. A steam ferry plies regularly to Charleston, and the town 

 will be the terminus of a railway, the stock for which has been recently 

 subscribed, to extend along the coast to the Santee river, and beyond it to 

 Little river, which will develop a region hitherto untouched. 



CHARLESTON COUNTY 



lies entirely along the coast, and besides the City of Charleston, has two 

 small towns. Moultrieville, on Sullivan's Island, is five miles across the 



