Manning, South Carolina For other places titled Manning, see Manning.
Manning, South Carolina Location in Clarendon County, South Carolina Location in Clarendon County, South Carolina State South Carolina County Clarendon Manning is a town/city in South Carolina and the governmental center of county of Clarendon County in the southeastern United States. The populace was 4,108 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated populace in 2014 of 4,059. It was titled after former South Carolina governor John Laurence Manning. In 1855, the South Carolina Legislature appointed a group of commissioners to select and purchase a tract of territory for "the Village of Manning" in the newly formed Clarendon County.
The site for the village was presented to the state by Captain Joseph Copley Burgess, and the Plat of Manning was prepared and filed in Sumter County Courthouse.
(Captain Burgess had also donated territory for the courthouse and jail in Manning.) On the second Monday of the following October, the new precinct officers were elected, and Clarendon began to operate autonomously from Sumter District with Manning as its county seat. The town/city was titled for John Lawrence Manning, who was propel to both chambers in the General Assembly.
He was later chosen by the Assembly to serve as Governor of South Carolina from 1852 to 1854.
George Allen Huggins was the first intendant (mayor) of Manning.
Manning's first library, the Hannah Levi Memorial Library, was instead of in 1910.
It eventually became known as the Manning Library and was the only enhance library in the county.
It became a county library in 1976 and continued to operate until the opening of the Harvin Clarendon County Library in 1984.
The building now homes the Clarendon County Archives and History Center. Manning was severely damaged a several times over its history.
Route 301 and thanks in part to the accomplishments of Manning resident W.
Legg, Manning and Clarendon County became a preferred route of the Washington to Florida motorist.
As early as 1960 Manning was one of many suburbs athwart the South for the staging of peaceful Civil Rights demonstrations and sit-ins.
In 1969 Pansy Ridgeway became the first woman to be propel mayor of Manning. She served as mayor of Manning from 1970 96 and was the third woman propel mayor in South Carolina and the first woman propel president of the South Carolina Municipal Association.
Manning is represented in the South Carolina Senate by John C.
It is part of South Carolina's 6th congressional precinct which since January 1993 has been represented by Jim Clyburn.
Manning is home to the The Manning Times newspaper.
Manning is home to two high schools, Manning High School and Laurence Manning Academy.
Manning is positioned near the center of Clarendon County at 33 41 38 N 80 12 55 W (33.693998, -80.215408). It is just to the east of Interstate 95 and at the intersection of U.S.
US 301 leads northeast 18 miles (29 km) to Turbeville and southwest 10 miles (16 km) to Summerton, while US 521 leads northwest 19 miles (31 km) to Sumter and southeast 15 miles (24 km) to Greeleyville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Manning has a total region of 2.76 square miles (7.15 km2), all of it land. It is just south of the Pocotaligo River, a tributary of the Black River.
Sumter County Florence County Calhoun County Williamsburg County Orangeburg County Berkeley County Rogers, Jr., Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1955-1966; the 1966 Republican nominee for governor of South Carolina, an attorney in Manning a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Manning city, South Carolina".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014 (PEPANNRES): Incorporated Places, South Carolina".
City of Manning.
History of Sumter County.
Sumter, South Carolina: Library Board of Sumter County.
"Hannah Levi Memorial Library / Manning Library Marker - Historic Markers Across South Carolina".
South Carolina, A History.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina.
South Carolina, A History.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina.
"Manning City Council".
City of Manning.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
City of Manning official website Clarendon County Archives and History Center Municipalities and communities of Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States County seat: Manning
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