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Edgefield, South Carolina
Edgefield, South Carolina

Edgefield

county, South Carolina, United States
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Edgefield, county, western South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a hilly piedmont region bounded to the southwest by the Savannah River border with Georgia. Much of the county is within the southern portion of Sumter National Forest. Algonquian-speaking Indians inhabited the region in the 1670s. Edgefield county was founded in 1785. It became a centre of political activity and of states’ rights agitation before the American Civil War. The county provided South Carolina with 10 governors and a number of U.S. representatives and senators. Milk, eggs, and chickens are among the agricultural products, and in most years local orchards produce ...(100 of 148 words)

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