700 TOAVXS OF SOUTH CAROLIXA. 



fifty-four; in 1870, of nine lumdred and eighty-five, and in 1880, of six 

 hundred and seventy-two. There is a hotel, and four Ijoarding houses. 

 The Farmer's Hall is a two-story building. There are seven churches 

 and five schools. No town tax or debt. About fourteen hundred bales 

 of cotton are shipped to Charleston, and eight hundred to New York and 

 Pliiladelphia ; six hundred go to the Pendleton, and four hundred to the 

 Piedmont factories in this vicinit}^ There is a tin, a wagon, a shoe, and 

 a blacksmith shop. 



Belton, at the intersection of the Blue Ridge with the Columbia and 

 Greenville railroad, had a population of three hundred and fourteen in 

 1880. A large hall, belonging to the Sons of Temperance, is used for 

 public exhibitions (license five dollars). There are five churches. The 

 hij^h school is a large new^ building ; there is also a private school, and a 

 colored free school. Brick stores rent for three hundred dollars to four 

 hundred dollars a year ; wooden ones, from one hundred dollars to two 

 hundred dollars. The Atlantic and French Broad Valley railroad is to 

 pass this point. About five thousand bales of cotton are shipped an- 

 nually, chiefly to Charleston, but in part to Norfolk and New York. The 

 yearly sales are, provisions, 875,000 ; dry goods, $15,000 ; hardware, 

 S5,000 ; miscellaneous, $25,000. There is a wood and blacksmith shop, 

 and a brick-yard. A church, five brick stores, and several residences 

 have been built within eighteen months. 



CHESTER COUNTY 



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

 five stores, as follows : Chesterville, eighty-seven stores ; Blackstock, nine 

 stores; Richburg, seven stores; Fort Lawn, four stores; Bascomville, 

 Chestnut Grove, Hazlewood, Loweryville, and Crosbyville, two stores 

 each ; Carmel, Camwell, Landsford, Rossville, and Wylie's, one store 

 each. Of this number five sell liquor, two hardware, twelve dry goods, 

 forty-seven miscellaneous articles, and fifty-nine general merchandise- 

 The wealth of the storekeepers is estimated at $90-1,000. 



Chesterville, the county seat, is in Lat. 34° 37' 48", Long. 0° 21', West of 

 Columbia, from which it is distant forty-eight miles, in an air line. It is 

 built on a dyke of aphanitic porphyry, which slopes upward from all 

 sides, in the manner of a glacis, recalling the towns of the middle ages, 

 built about the castle of some feudal potentate. It has three hotels, and 

 a large hall for public exhibitions is let for $5 to $10 a night. Nine 

 churches, with accommodations to seat 3,000 persons, were built at a cost 

 of $35,000. There are two graded schools; the buildings cost $0,000, 

 with a capacity for five hundred pupils, a female academy, and a Metho- 



