Allendale County - Steven J. Coker
Subject: Allendale County
From: Steven J. Coker
Date: December 15, 1998

Allendale County
http://allendalecounty.com/

Allendale County and its county seat of Allendale were named for the Allen
family, one of whose members, Paul Allen, was the town's first postmaster. The
county is South Carolina's youngest; it was formed in 1919 from parts of
Barnwell and Hampton counties. The area was settled in the mid-eighteenth
century by English, German, and Scotch-Irish farmers, and it remains primarily
agricultural. The plantation of Confederate general Johnson Hagood (1829-1898)
was in what is now Allendale County, and the artist Jasper Johns spent his
childhood years in Allendale.

Compiled by South Carolina State Library 1996. 
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/alle.html

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