G92 TOWNS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



January, 1883, ninet3^-nine, with 1,009 stores and a population of over 

 20,000. The wealth of the storekeepers is given at between five and six 

 millions of dollars. Their distribution among the counties l3'ing chiefly 

 or wholly in this region is as follows : 



BARNWELL COUNTY, 



traversed in a north and south direction by two railroads, the Port Royal 

 and the Charleston and Augusta, has twenty-two towns and trading set- 

 tlements, to wit : Black ville, thirty-three stores ; Allendale, thirty-one 

 stores ; Bamberg, twenty-six stores ; Williston, twenty-two stores ; Barn- 

 well Court House, seventeen stores ; Midway, eleven stores ; Campbellton 

 and Graham, eight stores each ; Elko, five stores ; Appleton, Beldoc, 

 Dunbarton and Martin's, four stores each ; Buford's Bridge, Cohen's Bluff, 

 Lee's, Bobbins', two stores each; Erwinton, Fiddle Pond, Hattieville, 

 Millett, ^'"arn, one store each. Of these one hundred and ninety-one es- 

 tablishments, fifteen sell liquors, thirty-three miscellaneous articles, and 

 the remainder general merchandise. The w^ealth of the proprietors is es- 

 timated at $1,250,000. 



Barnwell Court House has a high and healthy situation on Turkey 

 Creek, in the centre of the county. The public buildings and three- 

 fourths of the town were burned by Sherman's troops, in 1864, and after 

 the war the county seat was removed for some years to Blackville. In 

 1876, the old court house was rebuilt and a railroad, twelve miles in 

 length, opened to Blackville. The town is rapidly increasing in size since 

 this date. The Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, and 

 Catholics have churches here. Town lots and lands in the surround- 

 ing countr}^ are rapidl}^ advancing in price. A company is formed to 

 build a cotton factory on Turkey Creek, near by. There are two news- 

 papers, the Barnwell People and the Barnwell Sentinel. 



Blackville, on the South Carolina Railroad, has now upwards of 1,000 

 inhabitants, four churches, four schools, a carriage factory, several gins, 

 saw and grist mills, and ships annually about 4,000 bales of cotton. 



Allendale is a thriving and rapidly growing town on the Port Royal 

 railroad, of over six hundred inhabitants ; the leading religious denomi- 

 nations have churches, and there is one public and one private school. 



Bamberg, on the South Carolina railroad, has two churches, a high 

 school, three private schools, a newspaper, a banking establishment, a 

 planing mill, three wagon and wood shops, a saw mill, several cotton 

 gins and grist mills, and ships about 5,000 bales of cotton annually. The 

 population, in 1880, was 648. 



