G<;0 TOWNS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



children has a capacity for one hundred pupils. The white schools are 

 private. The Colleton Press is published weekly. There is a daily mail 

 by stage line to Green Pond, twelve miles distant, on the Charleston and 

 Savannah Railroad. A railroad from Walterboro to this point is graded, 

 and when completed it is proposed to extend it to Branchville, which 

 will make it the shortest line from the capital to the seaboard. Walter- 

 boro is in a region devoted formerly to rice culture, and no cotton was 

 sold here before the war; in 1881 one thousand bales were sold in the 

 town. The yearly sales are stated (probably underestimated) as follows ; 

 Provit,ions, ^75,000; dry goods, $25,000; hardware, |10,000 ; miscella- 

 neous, $45,000. 



St. George's, on the South Carolina Railroad, has a population of three 

 hundred. There is here a hotel, two school houses and a church. About 

 4,000 bales of cotton are shipped annually to Charleston. The estimate 

 of yearly sales is, provisions, |75,000 ; dry goods, $30,000 ; hardware, 

 $6,000 ; miscellaneous, $50,000. There are two steam saw mills and a 

 grist mill. 



BERKELEY COUNTY, 



exclusive of the places on the seacoast already noticed, has ten villages 

 and trading settlements, with sixt3''-five stores, to wit: Summerville, 

 twenty-four stores ; St. Stephen's and Moncks Corner, twelve stores each ; 

 Bonneau's, eleven stores ; Oakley, three stores ; Ladson's, two stores, and 

 Pineville, one store. Of this number there is one liquor store, four drug 

 stores, the remainder dealing in general merchandise. Four are kept by 

 colored persons. The estimated wealth of the storekeepers is given at 

 $200,000. Summerville, in the pine woods on the South Carolina rail- 

 road, is a health and pleasure resort for the citizens of Charleston. There 

 are two hotels, two livery stables, several boarding houses, and churches 

 of the leading religious denominations. The population is given by the 

 last census as 636. But during the season there are as many as 2,500 

 persons living here. 



WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY 



has thirteen towns and trading settlements, containing one hundred and 

 thirteen stores, to wit : Kingstree, thirtj^-one stores ; Graham's Cross 

 Road, eighteen stores ; Scranton, twelve stores ; Black Mingo, ten stores ; 

 Salters and Cambridge, nine stores each ; Gourdin's, seven stores ; Indian- 

 town and Johnsonville, six stores each ; Lane's, two stores ; Greeley ville, 

 Lynch's Lake, and Pine Bluff, one each. Among these two liquor stores 

 and one drug store are enumerated, the remainder keep general mer- 

 chandise ; one is kept by a colored person. The wealth of the store- 

 keepers is estimated at $478,000. 



