Barnwell, South Carolina Barnwell, South Carolina Location of Barnwell, South Carolina Location of Barnwell, South Carolina State South Carolina County Barnwell Barnwell is a town/city in Barnwell County, South Carolina, United States, positioned along U.S.
The populace was 4,750 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Barnwell County. Barnwell is positioned east of the center of Barnwell County at 33 14 40 N 81 21 48 W (33.244534, -81.363214). Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Salkehatchie River, runs through the town/city just west of the downtown, and includes a small impoundment known as Lake Brown in the north part of the city.
Route 278 passes through the city, dominant south 17 miles (27 km) to Allendale and northwest 42 miles (68 km) to Augusta, Georgia.
State highways 3, 70, 64 also pass through the city; SC 64 leads west 6 miles (10 km) to the east entrance of the Savannah River Site, which is a nuclear reservation.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Barnwell has a total region of 8.0 square miles (20.7 km2), of which 7.8 square miles (20.3 km2) is territory and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 1.86%, is water. It was given its current name in 1798 when the county and its seat were titled for Revolutionary War prestige John Barnwell (1748 1800), who headed a militia in South Carolina.
Barnwell County originally stretched from the Savannah River on the west almost to the Atlantic Ocean.
Built in 1832, the South Carolina Railroad connected Charleston to Hamburg, near Augusta, Georgia, on the Savannah River.
Barnwell gave generously to the Confederate cause; the most distinguished person was General Johnson Hagood, who was later governor of South Carolina.
Barnwell was hated by Union General W.T.
Sherman; he felt that the town should be burned to the ground since it carried the name of one of the most prominent politicians who had demanded South Carolina's withdrawal from the Union. When Union General Judson Kilpatrick was in Barnwell, his horses were stabled in the Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles; the baptismal font in the church was used to water the horses. Barnwell Army Airfield was assembled by the United States Army Air Forces and opened in May 1943.
After the war it became Barnwell Regional Airport.
In 1950 the federal government asked Du - Pont to build and operate a plutonium manufacturing plant near the Savannah River in South Carolina.
The Savannah River Plant changed its name to the Savannah River Site.
The Banksia Hall, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Church of the Holy Apostles Rectory, Church of the Holy Apostles, Episcopal, and Old Presbyterian Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles and its rectory, as well as the Bethlehem Baptist Church and the Old Presbyterian Church were first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the 1970s.
The chapel of Saint Andrew's Catholic Church is the earliest theological structure in Barnwell County.
It is also the earliest originally Catholic church in South Carolina.
The sundial is a unique vertical monument placed in front of the courthouse of Barnwell County.
It is thought to be the only vertical freestanding sundial in the United States, though counter-examples exist. It was given to Barnwell in 1858 by Joseph D.
Allen, at the time a state senator from Barnwell.
Bethlehem Baptist Church was officially organized in 1868, having its origin in the antebellum Barnwell Baptist Church, which was assembled on this site in 1829.
The Barnwell Baptist Church had their services on this site until 1854 when the congregation assembled another church building on a different site in the town.
At this time a several no-charge blacks and slaves were members of Barnwell Baptist Church, and they asked to use the 1829 sanctuary for worship services and meetings.
The old Barnwell Baptist Church sanctuary continued to serve this newly organized church until the building was completed in 1898.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Barnwell has a Humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Barnwell, South Carolina Solomon Blatt, Sr., South Carolina state representative - member of the "Barnwell Ring" Edgar Brown, South Carolina state senator - member of the "Barnwell Ring" Joseph Emile Harley, South Carolina governor - member of the "Barnwell Ring" The county was home to the Barnwell Ring, a group of powerful state politicians.
Brown (1888 1975), Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives Solomon Blatt, Sr.
Other state and nationwide politicians from Barnwell include: James O'Hanlon Patterson (1857 1911), congressman from South Carolina a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Barnwell city, South Carolina".
History of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles, Barnwell, South Carolina from the church's website Historic Barnwell from the city's website Climate Summary for Barnwell, South Carolina City of Barnwell official website South Carolina's Information Highway Municipalities and communities of Barnwell County, South Carolina, United States
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Cities in South Carolina - Cities in Barnwell County, South Carolina - County seats in South Carolina - Populated places established in 1798
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