TOWXS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 091 



Kingstree, the. county seat, lias a population of about 300. It is situated 

 at the head of navigation on the Black, more properly the Wynee river, 

 and on the North Eastern railroad. The court house and jail are hand- 

 some brick buildings. There is a Presbyterian, a Baptist, and a ^leth- 

 odist church, besides a church for colored persons. The Kingstree Star, 

 a weekly paper, is published here. About two thousand bales of cotton 

 are shipped annually. The name is derived from a large white or short 

 leaf pine tree that stood on the banks of the Wynee, which was called 

 the King's tree, after AVilliam III., of England. 



Scranton, on the same railroad, has a hotel and church, and about two 

 thousand bales of cotton are shipped annually, besides lumber and naval 

 stores. 



CLARENDON COUNTY 



has ten towns and trading settlements, with fifty-one stores, to wit : Man- 

 ning, twenty-four stores ; Summerton, nine stores; Forreston, eight stores; 

 Fulton, five stores ; McFadden, two stores ; Dudley, Enterprise, Jordan, 

 Panola and Packsville, one store each. Of this number there are two 

 liquor stores, three drug stores and one millinery ; the balance deal in 

 general merchandise. The wealth of the storekeepers is estimated at 

 $217,000. Manning, the county seat, is on the Central Railroad, near 

 where it crosses Pocotaligo river. The Methodists, Baptists, and Presby- 

 terians have each a church in the town. There is an academy, and one 

 newspaper, the Clarendon Press. 



Forreston, ten miles south of Manning on the niilroad, has a Baptist 

 church and two schools. Besides a considerable amount of lumber and 

 naval stores, about four thousand bales of cotton are shipped to Charleston. 



HORRY COUNTY 



has thirteen towns and trading settlements, with forty-five stores, to wit : 

 Conwayboro, twelve stores ; Board Landing and Port Harrelson, seven 

 stores each; Hickman's, five stores; Red Bluff and Bucksville, three 

 stores each ; Bayton, two stores ; Dogwood Neck, Gallivant's, Hickman's, 

 Wampee, and Round Swamp, one store each. The wealth of the store- 

 keepers is estimated at $284,000. 



THE UPPER PINE BELT 



is credited, in the census of 1880, with twenty-one towns, having a popu- 

 lation of 1 »,715. Including some omitted by the above mentioned enu- 

 meration, and the various trading settlements, they actually numbered, 



