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dist Institute exclusively for colored pupils. Stores rent at $200 to $250 

 per annum, and dwellings at $100 to $250. Taxes are two and one-half 

 mills, with a street tax of $2.50 on all able-bodied males. There is an 

 indebtedness of $3,000, the balance due on the cost of constructing five 

 water tanks for fire supply, with a capacity of 100,000 gallons. Three 

 railroads unite here, the Charlotte and Columbia, and two narrow gauge 

 roads, the Chester and Lenoir, tapping the Atlanta and Air Line rail- 

 road, and the Chester and Cheraw, completed to Lancaster. The Nation- 

 al Bank has a paid up capital of $150,000, surplus $80,000. Besides 

 fruits, hides, &c., about 30.000 bales of cotton are shipped annually to 

 Charleston, New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. The j-early sales 

 are given as follows: provisions, $300,000; dry goods, $150,000; hard- 

 ware, $50,000 ; miscellaneous, $20,000. Among the industries of the 

 town is a large wagon and carriage manufactory, the Chester agricultural 

 works and machine shops, a saddler}^, and a cotton seed oil mill. Much 

 attention has been bestowed here on grape culture. Two newspapers are 

 published in the town, and the County Agricultural Society has exten- 

 sive fair grounds. In 1840 the population was 250, in 1880 it was 1,899. 



EDGEFIELD COUNTY 



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

 ten stores, distributed as follows : Johnston's, thirty-one stores ; Edgefield 

 Court House, fifteen stores ; Trenton, twelve stores ; Ridge Springs, nine 

 stores ; Parksville, five stores ; Kirksey's, four stores ; Clintonward, Elm- 

 wood, and Pleasant Lane, three stores each ; Big Creek, Butler, Clark- 

 skill, Duntonsville, Meeting Street, two stores each ; Bouknight, Caugh- 

 man, Celestia, Cold Spring, Denny's, Ethridge, Fruit Hill, Garvin's, 

 Longmires, McKee's, Mine ®reek, Modoc, Pleasant Cross, Rehol)oth, and 

 Havirdsville. one store each. Of this number five sell liquor, one dry 

 goods, twelve miscellaneous articles, and ninety-two general merchan- 

 dise. The estimated wealth of the storekeepers is placed at $549,000. 



FAIRFIELD COUNTY 



has seventeen towns and trading settlements with ninety-one stores, dis- 

 tributed as follows : Winnsboro, forty-nine stores ; Ridgeway, ten stores ; 

 Strother's, six stores ; Shelton, five stores ; Blythewood, Wallaceville, and 

 White Oak, three stores each ; Lylesford and Woodward, two stores each : 

 Blair, Buckhead, Gladden 's, Horeb, Long Run, Monticello, and Poplar 

 Spring, one store each. Of this number five sell liquors, five hardware, 

 five dry goods, nineteen miscellaneous articles, and fifty-seven general 

 merchandise. The estimated wealth of the storekeepers is $075,000. 



