Subject:R. B. Huggins's shop, The Johnsonville Motor Company, was located on Broadway

Description:View of the old railroad crossing lights from Broadway looking West toward Railroad Avenue

Description:Photo displayed at the Centennial celebration of Rehobeth Church in 2009. A few of those pictured are Cortez, Merlyn, Gail, and Pam Cox, Ronald Cox, Cletus Cox, Sherrell Cox, and Vaughn Eaddy.

Description:Birth: Aug. 30, 1775 Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass. Death: Mar. 8, 1867 This is the portrait in Rev Newell's book - Life and Observations of Rev EF Newell. This portrait was painted by WO Bemis, engraved by J Sartain of Philadelphia He married his first wife, Fannie Butterfield on October 21, 1810. He married his second wife, Polly Blanchard on February 12, 1826. [show more]

Description:Reverend James Napoleon Powell (1888-1969) served as the first pastor for New Home Free Will Baptist Church in Possum Fork

Description:James Ruet Gilland (1810-1877) was a minister of Indiantown Church from 1858-1867. He was born on a farm near Greencastle, PA. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1836 but his failing health led him south, where he taught high school at Statesburg until entering the Theological Seminary at Columbia, graduating in 1840. He had one daughter, Mary Jane, by his first wife Mary Rebecca Hutchinson. After her death in 1843, Gilland married Mary Caroline Gibbes. He was assigned to several locations in SC before his assignment began in Indiantown in 1858. In 1867, feeling the church had been so broken up by the war so as to be unable to support him, he headed West to work in AR, MO, and MS. He returned to Indiantown in the fall of 1877, spending his remaining months with his daughter, Mary Jane Gilland McCutchen. [show more]

Description:John Morgan Timmons (1800-1863) was the founder of Timmonsville, SC. He was for 45 years pastor of Elim Baptist Church at Effingham, a large landowner, and a businessman. He was a Signer of the Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860, and died in 1869, He and the Timmons family are treated extensively in the book Happy Heritage, by Mrs. R. B. Cannon, The State Company, Columbia, South Carolina, 1943. [show more]

Description:Rosa Belle Eaddy Woodberry Dickson (1869-1953) was the first female mayor in South Carolina history.. She was a role model of the independent female who lived in the area of Johnsonville, South Carolina area between 1868 and 1953. She was a truly a person of exceptional ability and especially so for the time in which she lived. This multi-talented woman chose to be a school teacher and thus became another of the Eaddy family to make her most valuable contribution in development of the youth of her community. Rosa Belle Eaddy was a principal, teacher, pianist, music director, and reformer at Old Johnsonville. The school was located between Hemingway and Johnsonville, South Carolina. She held radical views for her time and place and once created an uproar over the use of the community water dipper commonly used in the schools of that era. This was a practice followed by families at home and difficult to oppose publicly. She had each child to furnish his own drinking vessel to counteract the spread of water borne diseases. Time has proved her correct and added to the respect held for her by those who knew her. Rosa Belle Eaddy was a strong and forceful woman who was profoundly respected in her community and church. She was reported to be a dramatic teacher who could leave a lasting impression on here students in the public school as well as the Sunday school classes. Among her practical skills were those of carpentry used to build her own house and she shoed her own horses. She was elected as Mayor of Johnsonville in 1925, becoming the first woman mayor in South Carolina. In this office, she readily exercised her authority to arrest persons found violating the law. Rosa Belle Eaddy first married Wattie Gamewell Woodberry with whom she had four sons and one daughter. Two of of her sons graduated from the U. S. Military Academy, and both were inventors of and holders of numerous patents. After the death of her first husband, she married R.B.W. "Willie" Dickson. No children were born to this marriage. At the age of 85 years, she died in Lynchburg, South Carolina and was survived by three of her sons: Brigadier General John Henry Woodberry of Greenville, South Carolina; Clarence Oswell Woodberry of Poston, near Johnsonville, South Carolina; and Lieutenant Colonel David Lemuel Woodberry, I. of St. Petersburg, Virginia. One brother, John Mallard Eaddy of Spartanburg, South Carolina survived her passing. [show more]

Description:Photo shows Sylvester Briley Poston, businessman and first mayor of Johnsonville, in one of his stores. others have yet to be identified.

Description:Sylvester Briley Poston, first mayor of Johnsonville.

Description:S.B. Poston (left) stands in a store with other workers. This was most likely in the "Poston Block" - a group of stores and businesses at the Northwest corner of Broadway St. and Railroad Ave.

Description:Saint Luke Colored School served black students near Kingsburg during segregation. The school was closely associated with and located near Saint Luke A.M.E. Church at 539 Chinaberry Road, Johnsonville.

Description:Saint Mark Colored School served black students in the Kingstree area during segregation. The school was located near the current location of Saint Mark A.M.E. Church at 1532 Kingsburg Highway. [show more]

Description:Five children of Samuel Davis Hanna and Viola Victoria Altman at family reunion 1983. Sitting left to right: Ellen Hanna Chandler, Pearl Hanna Eaddy, Linwood Hanna. Standing left to right: Carrie Hanna Prater and Hessie Mae Hanna Altman.

Description:Samuel Davis Hanna and Viola Victoria Altman Hanna Descendants reunion 1983. From left to right: Ann Marie Hanna, Myrtle Ree Hanna, John Linwood Hanna.

Description:Dolly worked for Fairalee and Percy Poston. She married Willie Woodberry and they had daughters named Betty Jo Wilson and Louise Wilson - both worked at Wellman. Willie and Sarah lived in one of the first homes in Hickory Hill. For a time she lived in a garage apartment at the Poston house on Railroad Avenue. This photo was taken in the Poston kitchen. [show more]

Description:Elm Street, Johnsonville, SC; Mac McClendon owned and operated the sand pits just outside Johnsonville

Description:Ottis Sr. and Jim Huggins in front of the "Little Store" in the lumber mill area, circa 1952. Huggins Brothers Lumber Company was by Ottis "Sawman" Huggins Jr. (1922-1985). It was located at Ards Crossroads by the railroad track. Huggins established the lumber company in November, 1919 when he returned from WWI. [show more]

Description:Johnsonville explores the possibility of aquiring South Carolina Great Town recognition. 23 December 1976

Description:Shows the right of way and parcels of land purchased from landowners C. Belle Poston, S.B. Poston, R.H. Kimball, and J.D. Haselden. Also includes street grid of Johnsonville in 1918.

Description:Wellman spent time circa 1956 researching sheep that might be better acclimated to South Carolina's weather. C. H. Mudge acted as herdsman for the project. The sheep pasture was across Highway 41 from the Wellman Texaco Station.

Description:Octavia "Sissy" Stone Carter holds her grandson, Jimmy Hanna. Jimmy is the son of Arles Timmons Hanna and Violet Carter Hanna.

Description:Sonny Carter enjoys the snow at his grandmother Octavia "Sissy" Stone Carter's home. The home was located on Vox Highway at the intersection with Rena Atkinson Road.

Description:Sophomore girls of Johnsonville High School

Description:South Carolina's All-star Basketball team, 1952. Some pictured are: Delance Poston (#11 in back row) - Johnsonville Billy Risen - Bowman Frank Ellerbe - Latta David A Neilson - Aiken Ben Arthur Bridgeman - McColl Chris Theos - Charleston Austin Thompson - Conway Buz Carmichael - Mullins [show more]