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The 20 years from 1948 to 1968 were a highly transitional time for the politics of South Carolina and Laurens County, largely in part due to the Democratic Party's increasing support for African-American civil rights and enfranchisement. South Carolinian Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond won the county in 1948, and Democrats won it back from 1952 to 1960.
Location of Laurens County in South Carolina. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Laurens County, South Carolina.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States.
Laurens Glass Company was established in 1910, and was one of the largest glass plants in the southeast for over 80 years. The Laurens Railroad Company was chartered in 1847. The Columbia-Newberry-Laurens Railroad and the Charleston-Western Carolina Railroad are the two major intersections provided by the railroad. [10]
Laurens Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in Laurens. The district includes residential, commercial, religious, and governmental buildings built between 1880 and 1940.
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Ware Shoals is a town in Abbeville, Greenwood, and Laurens counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina, along the Saluda River. [5] At the 2020 census , the population was 1,701. The Greenwood County portion of Ware Shoals is part of the Greenwood Micropolitan Statistical Area , while the Laurens County portion is part of the Greenville ...
South Carolina Highway 418 (SC 418) is a 24.740-mile (39.815 km), east–west state highway in upstate South Carolina. It travels between U.S. Route 25 (US 25) in southern Greenville County and SC 101 / SC 146 in southern Spartanburg County ; it also travels through northern Laurens County .
The Ninety-Six District was given the counties of Abbeville, Edgefield, Laurens, Newberry, Spartanburg, and Union. [ 4 ] On February 19, 1791, the Ninety-Six District lost the land in the current Union , Spartanburg counties and the portion of Cherokee county within the district in the formation of Pinckney District .