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Edgefield County
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Edgefield County

County in west South Carolina; area 1,269 sq km/490 sq mi; population (1990) 18,400. It is bounded by the Savannah River and the state of Georgia to the southwest. Its administrative headquarters is the town of Edgefield; population (1990) 2,600. Its west quarter is occupied by part of the Sumter National Forest. It is noted for its pottery and as the site of some of the state's earliest textile mills. The rural modern county produces cotton, peaches, asparagus, and timber. Its light industries manufacture lumber, textiles, and food products.

Once part of the larger Edgefield District, this historic area was home to ten South Carolina governors and was the birthplace of Texas Revolutionary hero William B Travis (1809-36), Confederate general James Longstreet (1821-1904), and political leader Benjamin River Tillman (1847-1918).
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Finally, one wishes she had concluded her book with sentiments like those of Orville Vernon Burton's In My Father's House Are Many Mansions, a 1985 study of black and white communities in Edgefield County, South Carolina, that reaches from antebellum times through Reconstruction:
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South by McColley, Robert / African American Review
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