GOG TOWNS OP SOUTH CAROLINA. 



MAKLBORO COUNTY 



has eight towns and trading settlements, with fifty-five stores, distributed 

 as follows : Bennettsville, forty stores, Clio, seven stores, Brightsville and 

 Brownsville, two stores each, Hunt's Bluff, Parnassus, Red Hill, and 

 Three Creeks, one store each. Liquors are not sold in the county, and 

 of the stores enumefrated, six deal in miscellaneous articles, and forty- 

 nine in general merchandise. The estimated wealth of the storekeepers 

 is $524,000. Bennettsville is the county seat. 



MARION COUNTY 



has sixteen towns and trading settlements, with one hundred and thirty- 

 six stores, distributed as follows : Marion Court House, fifty-eight stores ; 

 Mullens, seventeen stores ; Little Rock, thirteen stores ; Mars Bluff, ten 

 stores ; Forestville, nine stores ; Effingham, Lynches Creek, seven stores 

 each ; Oak Grove, four stores ; Jeffreys' Creek, three stores ; Little Bluff, 

 two stores ; Brick Swamp, Campobella, Cranesville, Donohoe, Free State 

 and Hyman, one store each. Of this number, five sell liquors, three, 

 dry goods, twenty-seven, miscellaneous, and one hundred and one, gen- 

 eral merchandise ; two are kept by colored persons. The estimated 

 wealth of the storekeepers is placed at $633,000. * 



The town of Marion, first called Gilesborough, is on the Wilmington 

 and Columbia railroad. The population was given, in 1880, at 824; it 

 is now thought to exceed 1,500. It has eight churches and five schools. 

 There are three weekly newspapers and an agricultural paper. Avenues 

 of stately trees offer an attractive promenade. About 8,000 bales of cot- 

 ton are shipped annually from this point. 



THE RED HILL REGION 



requires no separate mention as regards its towns. Being a long and 

 rather narrow region, running northeast and southwest, the railroads 

 crossing it only traverse it for a short distance, except the Columbia and 

 Augusta road. As the towns along this road are actually on the granite 

 formation, or the sand hills, they will be mentioned when treating of the 

 towns in these regions. Actually the two small towais of Wedgefield and 

 Stateburg, with St. Matthew's, in Orangeburg, are about the only towns 

 in this region, and this will account for the fact that the region itself has 

 never heretofore been recognized, notwithstanding its very characteristic 

 features, as one of the physical subdivisions of the State. The 



