Bamberg County
http://www.sccounties.org/counties/bamberg.htm

Bamberg County and its county seat, Bamberg, were named for local resident
William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858) and other members of the Bamberg family. The
area was a part of Barnwell County until 1897 when the new county was
established. Although the area has been primarily agricultural, several towns
developed along the route of the South Carolina Railroad in the mid-nineteenth
century. In February 1865 Confederate soldiers fought an unsuccessful skirmish
against General Sherman's troops at Rivers Bridge, now the site of a state park.
The plantation of author William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was in what is now
Bamberg County, and artist Jim Harrison is also a native of the county.

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

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