Lake City, South Carolina Lake City, South Carolina Location of Lake City in South Carolina Location of Lake City in South Carolina Lake City is a town/city in Florence County, South Carolina, United States.
The populace was 6,675 at the 2010 census. Located in central South Carolina, it is south of Florence and encompassed as part of the Florence Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Lake City region was originally part of Williamsburg Township, which was first settled by a group of Scots-Irish in 1736.
It was first called "Graham's Crossroads" and then "Graham", after Aaron Graham, a territory owner around the crossroads that now form Church and Main streets in Lake City.
On December 24, 1883, the town changed its name to "Lake City", after the swimming lakes just north of town.
This was at the request of the locally-serving Lynches Lake Post Office, since there was another postal service in South Carolina known as that.
This small town had a populace of 300 in 1893, and by 1898 the region had turn into the dominant strawberry cropland in South Carolina.
Lake City was the site of a notorious lynching on February 22, 1898, that resulted in the mob murders of the city's black postmaster and his infant daughter. Lake City was at one time called the "Bean Capital of the World", and the Bean Market downtown has now been converted into an event rental and civic center facility.
The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property in the Lake City Downtown Historic District. Also listed on the National Register of Historical Places is the W.T.
Lake City's town/city government includes a mayor (elected for a four-year term), an appointed town/city administrator, and a six-person town/city council (elected to single-member districts for a four-year staggered term of office.
The city's mayor is Lovith Anderson, Jr., and the town/city administrator is Shawn M.
Today, Lake City's economy is dominated by tobacco.
Lake City is positioned in southern Florence County at 33 52 4 N 79 45 22 W (33.867697, -79.756153). U.S.
Route 52 is the chief highway through the city, dominant north 24 miles (39 km) to Florence, the county seat, and south 17 miles (27 km) to Kingstree.
Route 378 crosses US 52 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the town/city center, dominant east 45 miles (72 km) to Conway and west 35 miles (56 km) to Sumter.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Lake City has a total region of 5.2 square miles (13.5 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km2), or 0.15%, is water. Lake Swamp drains the northern part of the city, flowing east to the Lynches River and then the Pee Dee River.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.7% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $22,534, and the median income for a family was $32,111.
"Lake City, SC".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lake City city, South Carolina".
"The Lake City Lynching: Thirteen Men Indicted in a Federal Court for the Alleged Murder of a Negro Postmaster", New York Times, April 8, 1899.
Carter, "The Lynching of Postmaster Frazier Baker and His Infant Daughter Julia in Lake City, South Carolina, in 1898 and its Aftermath" in African-Americans and South Carolina: History, Politics, and Culture, at University of South Carolina Aiken website (retrieved May 20, 2009).
"Lake City, SC".
Lake City official website Greater Lake City Chamber of Commerce Municipalities and communities of Florence County, South Carolina, United States Florence Johnsonville Lake City
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