Winnsboro, South Carolina Winnsboro, South Carolina Location of Winnsboro, South Carolina Location of Winnsboro, South Carolina State South Carolina Winnsboro is a town in Fairfield County, South Carolina, United States.
The populace was 3,550 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Fairfield County. Winnsboro is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Several years before the Revolutionary War, Richard Winn from Virginia moved to what is now Fairfield County in the upland or Piedmont region of South Carolina.
Richard was a general, said to have fought in more battles than any Whig in South Carolina.
See Fairfield County, South Carolina, for more.
The region was advanced for the cultivation of short-staple cotton after Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793, which made refining of this type of cotton profitable.
Short-staple cotton was widely cultivated on plantations in upland areas throughout the Deep South, through an interior region that became known as the Black Belt.
By the time of the Civil War, the county's populace was majority black and majority slave.
"Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues", an industrialized folk song of the 1930s with lyrics typical of the blues, refers to working in a cotton foundry in this city.
Places listed on the National Register of Historic Places for Winnsboro range from an Archaic reconstructionarcheological site, to structures and districts spanning the European-American/ black history of the city, as in the following list: Albion, Balwearie, Blair Mound, Dr.
Walter Brice House and Office, Concord Presbyterian Church, Furman Institution Faculty Residence, Hunstanton, Ketchin Building, Bob Lemmon House, Liberty Universalist Church and Feasterville Academy Historic District, Mc - Meekin Rock Shelter, Mount Olivet Presbyterian Church, New Hope A.R.P.
Church and Session House, Old Stone House, Rockton and Rion Railroad Historic District, Rural Point, Shivar Springs Bottling Company Cisterns, The Oaks, Tocaland, White Oak Historic District, and the Winnsboro Historic District are listed on the . In the late 19th century after white Democrats regained control of state legislatures in the South, they passed laws establishing ethnic segregation of enhance facilities and disenfranchising blacks, excluding them from the political system.
They intended to travel through the Deep South and end at New Orleans.
They were met by increasing violence as they went south.
Winnsboro is positioned east of the center of Fairfield County at 34 22 37 N 81 5 17 W (34.377069, -81.087959). U.S.
Route 321 and South Carolina Highway 34 bypass the town on the west side.
US 321 leads north 25 miles (40 km) to Chester and south 28 miles (45 km) to Columbia.
The unincorporated improve of Winnsboro Mills borders the south side of Winnsboro.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town of Winnsboro has a total region of 3.2 square miles (8.4 km2), all land. Tocaland is one of twenty-one sites in Winnsboro listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Congressman from South Carolina Brown, former vice-president of Southern Railway (now Norfolk Southern); political figure in South Carolina legislative government William Ellison, Jr., born a mixed-race slave April on the plantation of William Ellison (likely his father) near Winnsboro; he was apprenticed as a cotton gin manufacturer and allowed to buy his freedom in 1816; he had his own company and also became a primary planter in Sumter County, where he owned 1000 acres by 1860 and various slaves.
John Hugh Means, 64th governor of South Carolina (1850 1852); signed South Carolina Ordinance of Secession in 1860; killed at Second Battle of Manassas amid Civil War senator from South Carolina Miriam Stevenson, Miss South Carolina 1953, Miss South Carolina USA 1954, Miss USA 1954, Miss Universe 1954 Woodward, congressman from South Carolina; son of William Woodward a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Winnsboro town, South Carolina".
Kathryn Woodard, "The Pianist's Body at Work: Mediating Sound and Meaning in Frederic Rzewski's Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues", Sonic Meditations, 2008, at Academia website, accessed 13 November 2014 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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