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Johnston Historic District is a national historic district in Johnston, Edgefield County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 127 contributing buildings, 16 contributing sites, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the village of Johnston. The district includes commercial and residential properties from approximately 1880 ...
Johnston is located in eastern Edgefield County at (33.831927, -81.802304 South Carolina Highway 23 passes through the center of town as Calhoun Street, leading southwest 8 miles (13 km) to Edgefield, the county seat, and northeast 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to Ward.
94 Church Street, South Carolina 1760–1765 [49] House Thomas Elfe House: 54 Queen Street, South Carolina 1760–1770 [50] House Edward Blake House: 1 Legare Street, Charleston 1760–1770 [51] House Blake Tenements: 2–4 Courthouse Square, Charleston 1760–1772 Rental townhouses The houses are used as offices for Charleston County. Grimke ...
Chapman, John A. History of Edgefield County: From the Earliest Settlements to 1897 (Newberry, South Carolina: Elbert H. Aull, Publisher and Printer, 1897). online; Ford, Lacy K. "Origins of the Edgefield Tradition: The Late Antebellum Experience and the Roots of Political Insurgency." South Carolina Historical Magazine 98.4 (1997): 328–348.
It was the site of the first raising of the South Carolina state flag in 1775. The magazine was built in 1765 and is a brick structure that measures 27 feet long and 20 feet wide. In 1861 the guns of Fort Johnson were within firing range of nearby Fort Sumter .
Pages in category "People from Johnston, South Carolina" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (November 9, 1896 – April 18, 1965) was an American politician from the US state of South Carolina.He served as the 98th governor of South Carolina, from 1935 to 1939 and again from 1943 to 1945.
In 1955, the owners of Annadale successfully sued the South Carolina Public Service Authority for inverse condemnation after the construction of a dam on the Santee River resulted in damage to the property. [4] The case eventually ended up in the South Carolina Supreme Court. [4] The property was listed on the National Register of Historic ...