Yemassee, South Carolina Yemassee, South Carolina Location of Yemassee, South Carolina Location of Yemassee, South Carolina Yemassee is a small Lowcountry town in Beaufort and Hampton counties in the U.S.
The populace was 1,027 at the 2010 census. Yemassee is also very near the borders of Colleton and Jasper counties and is often considered[by whom?] to be the geographical center or heart of the Lowcountry region.
The town is divided by the county line between Beaufort and Hampton counties, which follows the roadbed of the CSX barns .
Most of the town's populace presently lies inside Hampton County (as of 2006).
Enumeration Bureau, the Beaufort County portion of Yemassee is encompassed inside the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Yemassee hosts one of the several commercial breeding facilities of non-human primates in the entire United States (Alpha Genesis, Inc.).
Also, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Auldbrass Plantation home and outbuildings lie just outside the town limits of Yemassee.
The town takes its name from the Native American tribe of the same name, the Yamasee, which was the most meaningful Indian ally of South Carolina until the Yamasee War of 1715.
The first attack that began the Yamasee War occurred in the Yamasee town of Pocotaligo, today part of the town of Yemassee.
21 and 17 - A between Yemassee and Pocotaligo (that section of highway is now a part of Yemassee, as the town has now greatly period into Beaufort County [as of 2006]).
William Gilmore Simms presented a novel, The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina, in the nineteenth century, and the University of South Carolina in Columbia prints a literary journal titled Yemassee.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 4.5 square miles (11.7 km2), all land. In the town, the populace was spread out with 31.0% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 17.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $24,868, and the median income for a family was $31,429.
Yemassee is accessible from three exits along Interstate 95 (exits 33, 38 and 42), which runs to the west of the town limits.
Highway 68 joins Yemassee with other communities in Hampton County, including Varnville and Hampton.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Yemassee town, South Carolina".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Yemassee town, South Carolina".
Town of Yemassee official website Municipalities and communities of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States Municipalities and communities of Hampton County, South Carolina, United States
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Towns in South Carolina - Towns in Beaufort County, South Carolina - Towns in Hampton County, South Carolina - Hilton Head Island Beaufort micropolitan area
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