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Johnsonville Pentecostal Holiness Church
Johnsonville Pentecostal Holiness Church on Highway 41. -
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Johnsonville Motor Company, 1920s
The Johnsonville Motor Company was operated by Raymond B. Huggins, Sr. Pictured left to right are R.B. Huggins Jr (far left), R.B. Huggins Sr., and John "Monk" Eaddy. The older man seated to the far right is unidentified. -
Johnsonville Middle School 1996
Johnsonville Middle School was originally The Stuckey School, an "Equalization School" during the "Separate But Equal" period which was built in 1954 on a 10-acre tract of land two miles west of Johnsonville (my best research so far is that this is the wooden school pictured here). The school took its name from Eliot Stuckey who donated land for the building. The school was originally constructed to serve as an all-black elementary school. It had modern conveniences such as running water, electricity, and indoor plumbing which were lacking in many all-black schools in South Carolina. From 1954-1958, high school students attended Gibbs High School in Pamplico. From 1958-1962, high school students attended Battery Park School in Nesmith.
After the addition of more classrooms in 1962, Stuckey School began serving black students in grades 1-12. in 1963 a gymnasium was added. Athletic competition during this time was limited to Basketball. The Stuckey Blue Jays had the best record of all the local districts, winning many trophies and championships. The class of 1963 was the first to graduate from Stuckey, and the class of 1969 was the last. Stuckey and Johnsonville were fully integrated the following year and the Stuckey School became Johnsonville Middle School for all students. The buildings on this site served students for over 40 years, and closed its doors at the end of the 1997 school year when the new Johnsonville Middle School was completed. Lamar D. Bradley served as principal of The Stuckey School during it's entire lifetime (1954-1969). After integration, he served as the assistant superintendent of the new Florence District 5. This building is now the Johnsonville Adult Care center.Tags middle school -
Johnsonville Men's Baseball team 1939
Cleland Tanner, Irby Stone, Hubert Haselden, Livingston Bishop, infielders; Fran Altman, Freeman Richardson, F. A. Taylor, Victor Johnson, outfielders; Jimmie Husbands, Robert Turner, catchers; Carroll Taylor, Mayor Altman, pitchers. -
Johnsonville Mayor Connie DeCamps Signs Proclamation, 9-30-1976
Mayor Connie DeCamps signs proclamation for Fire Prevention Week. 30 September 1976 -
Johnsonville Mayor Connie DeCamps and Girl Scouts, 3-3-1977
Mayor Connie DeCamps meets with Girl Scouts. 3 March 1977 -
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Johnsonville Looked Good To a Boy From Possum Fork
JOHNSONVILLE LOOKED GOOD TO A BOY FROM "POSSUM FORK"
JOHNSONVILLE - Half way between Florence and Georgetown - which is to say that particularly favored location location wherein the Low Country comes rushing up to greet the Pee Dee area - is a town called Johnsonville. Two things alone hold together the community - the Wellman Combing Co., with more than five-hundred employees, and an indomitable will on the part of its one-thousand citizens.
AS towns go, Johnsonville is not old; but it is old enough to have firmly established itself in the affections of those whom therein dwell. One such man is D.B. Haselden. Since the last-named merchant has been a resident without interruption of the town for the past 33 years: and since Haselden was born within 2 and one half miles of his present residence, the stor of D.B. Haselden is the story of Johnsonville. Here it is in Merchant Haselden's own words:
"When I came to live in Johnsonville there were no paved roads in or out. To a boy from Possum Fork, however, it looked real good. Anyway, I opened a small grocery business here on Oct. 5, 1926. My business kept up with the town - neither grew one iota. In 1927 a lumber outfit moved in unasked but very welcome. The Bennet-Walker Lumber Co., was composed of a planing mill and 5 or 6 sawmills, and remained in business here until the death of John Walker - about 1942. Walker's son still lives here. Much later the Combing Company moved in, and saved what was left of Johnsonville."
What was left?
"Yes. In Jan. 1931, in the dead of night a fire broke out. By dawn the Main street looked like Flanders Field after a heavy rain. Only two shops were left standing; a drug store and - you guessed it - the D.B. Haselden Grocery. The heck of it was that folks seemed to be in no hurry about rebuilding. I used to feel like a shopkeeper in the destroyed city of Pompei, I tell you. It looked like that fire was to prove a fatal blow to our town. Do you know, it was not until about 1944 that they started rebuilding from the ashes? Thirteen long years I kept shop on a street all but obliterate. Why it must have been all of twelve months after the fire before the charred smell left Broadway. That's the name of the main stem, you know..."
The long and lean Mr. Haselden suddenly leaned back and roared with laughter.
"Pardon me," he said finally. "I was remembering a song which was popular along about those same disheartening days. It went: 'Bright lights on Broadway, sunshine down in Dixie,' et cetera et cetera. We had the sunshine alright but not much illumination on our Broadway.
"I believe I mentioned Possum Fork a little earlier? Well that's where I was born. If Johnsonville was a bit on the isolated side brother, you should have know the Fork back when I was a boy. It was almost literally out of this world. I recall a school teacher who came to teach out there - they put him up in a deserted house back in a thicket. He wanted. The told him without cracked to know if the place was haunting a smile, that the 'houses were all too small, at Possum Fork, to hold a ghost.' I reckon though, that ma didn't believe them. He didn't stay long.
"The Fork is still there - only a little better than two miles from Johnsonville. Some folks will say I have no shame - disclosing conditions as they were back fifty years ago. But I am downright proud of being from Possum Fork. If this story reaches the paper, I'll bet there will be hundreds of people who will know that I am telling the truth.
"I didn't see a train until I was 12 years old. The nearest railroad was at Lake City. I never visited either Florence or Georgetown until I was a married man of 23." Haselden's eyes took on a far away look.
"I can recall going to Allison's Landing - that's on the Pee Dee - with my father, after we'd heard the boat whistling. Dad used to buy his staples at Georgetown - flour, rice, coffee and sugar, and have them brought up the river. It was about six miles to the Landing, we'd travel by mule and cart. When I was a boy, I thought of Georgetown as the beginning and the end of civilization. My father used to float logs and cross ties to Georgetown, you see. He'd be gone on those trips from five to ten days. Have to walk back, you know. Anyway, upon his return he would tell we children of the wonders of Georgetown; of its bulging shops, its find houses, etc.
"Sometime during the early 1920s, a momentous thing took place. By popular vote Johnsonville was separated from Williamsburg County, to become part of Florence County. I suspect that Florence - the county, that is - wasn't really overcome with joy by our addition; but the people had spoken. The town itself is not old. Originally the land upon which it was built was part and parcel of the S.B. Poston farm. I can recall when the main street was sold off in lots.
"I operate the smallest grocery store in Johnsonville, but it's been a living. With the help of my wife - I married Emily Powell of Possum Fork, Dec. 1917 - I've been able to raise and educate five children: there's V.C. - he's practicing law down in Georgetown - Hubert L., who has some 18 years of Navy service behind him, Wilma Ruth, who serves as secretary in the Charlotte office of the FBI, Ken, now rounding out ten years wi the U.S. Air Force, and Reid Nettles, teaching at Johnsonville High.
World War II, says the Johnsonville merchant, wade for very slight change in the town's leisured pace. "There were no bases or defense plants nearby," he says, "and about the only real difference was in the absence of young people - the boys off to war, their wives (if married), following them to camps and places and cities here, there and everywhere located..."
Haselden took a deep breath. "And now, I am going to stick my neck out, but good! I believe that Johnsonville is as big as ever it will get. That's my very own and personal conviction, of course. I hope it proves to be in error - but I trust I will be pardoned and forgiven by my neighbors when I say I shall not lose any sleep if the town doesn't swell too rapidly. I like it the way it is."
Mr. D.B. Haselden, now 62, can look back proudly and declare that he has spent his entire life within a couple of miles radius of Johnsonville.
"It is fellows like myself," he says, "who account for the existence of small places like this one. On this score, may I had, I make no apologies." -
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Johnsonville Legion Ceremony
Johnsonville Legion Ceremony - When the new American Legion post home was dedicated Thursday night, Post Commander, Joe T. Huggins (second from left) as host of the occasion was surrounded by high officials of the Legion in the state. Seated, left to right are Jess Bullard, of Columbia, state asjutant, Commander Huggins, Mrs. Huggins; O. B. Freeman, of Loris, department vice-commander, and W. J. McLeod, of Walterboro, state commander. The picture at the bottom, taken just before the ceremony and banquet at 8 p.m., shows the new hut, constructed almost entirely by members of the post. In addition to post member and Legion officers of the state and various districts, Governor and Mrs. Thurmond and Florence County officials attended the ceremony. (Photos by Walter S. McDonald) Source: Florence Morning News -
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Johnsonville is Hustling Little Town - 1952
Includes photos of Seaboard Air Train Depot, town officials, and J.H. Owens, freight and express operator. -
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Johnsonville High School, 1938
This photo from the 1939 Gold and Black yearbook shows the high school building before the wings were added in 1940. -
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Johnsonville High School Sophomore Girls 1939
Sophomore girls of Johnsonville High School -
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Johnsonville High School Moves Into New Building, 10-14-1974
Article from the Weekly Observer about Johnsonville moving to the new high school building for the 1974-75 school year. -
Johnsonville High School May Day Court 1939
May Day Court, 1939
Queen: Harriett Raley; King: Carroll Taylor
Maid of Honor: Della Dean Meng
Maids: Sarah Altman, Mab Woodberry, Geneva Venters, Sue Rawlings, Aline Bolyne, Mary Lee Keefe, Dorothy O'quinn, Frederica Richardson
Courtiers: Hubert Haselden, J. L. Hyder, Francis Altman, Mayo Altman, Mayford Altman, Jack Taylor, Hinson Perry, Bernard Hearn -
Johnsonville High School Junior Class, 1949
Maisie Poston Ballou is standing to the left. This photo is taken in front of the old Johnsonville High School, now the District Office for District 5. -
Johnsonville High School in the snow, 1968
The old high school building is now the Florence County Schools District 5 offices. -
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Johnsonville High School Girl's Basketball Squad 1939
Rosa Nelle Altman (Captain), Dorothy O'Quinn. Centers: Hallie Avant, Wilma Ruth Haselden. Guards: Minnie Weaver, Mab Woodberry. Forwards: Geneva Venters, Virginia Miller, Mary Lee Keefe, substitutes. Eunice Quinn, Coach. -
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Johnsonville High School Faculty 1949
Superintendent H. M. Floyd, Principal H. W. Brown
(1st row L to R): Mrs. T. P. Harrelson, Mrs. H. M. Floyd, Mrs. R. L. Carter, Mrs. T. L. Lane, Mrs. J. Chapman, Mrs. S. O. Lyerly, Mrs. H. O. Richardson.
(2nd row L to R): Mr. H. M. Floyd, Mr. T. L. Lane, Miss Claire Creel, Miss Virgiline Eaddy, Mrs. B. F. Richardson, Miss Hattie Durant, Mrs. E. S. Stoddard, Mrs. W. Eaddy, Mr. H. W. Brown, Mrs. Wallace Altman, Mr. E. O. Eaddy, Mr. Dick Martin -
Johnsonville High School Classmates Reunion, 1977
Johnsonville High School Classmates Reunion - The Weekly Observer, January 20, 1977. -
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Johnsonville High School Class of 1953 Senior Trip to Washington, DC
JHS Class of 1953 senior trip to Washington, DC.
In the 1950 Gold and Black the Class of '53 was listed as:
J.W. Avant, J.W. Coker, Boyd Prosser, Faye Thompson, J. Gold Altman, Don Melton, James Edward Eaddy, Yvonner Leta Hanna, Wilmer Crosby, Lucille Thompson, Vera Thompson, Letha Mae Parnell, Eunice Mae Tanner, Jackie Jones, Blanche Lee Haselden, Barbara Ann Dennis, Dorothy Lee Nettles, Johnnie Mae Ard, Shirley Perry, Doris Stone, Louise Thompson, Francis Filyaw, Jeanette Walters, Randolph Hanna, Winnifred Hanna, Miriam Lily, Evert Crosby, John Huggins, Horace Browder, Le Ray Hucks, Morris Calcutt, Kenneth Lanning, Isabel Poston, James Altman, Clarence Hucks, Pate Prosser, Louis Rogers, Jimmy Bennett, Andy Poston, Nedo Eaddy, Bruster Powell, Jerry Poston, Joseph Baxley, Mary Hanna, Wera Nell Prosser, Eva Dean McDaniel, Betty Powell, Jean Turner, Merry Caroy Huggins, Betty Jane Tune, Sally Jo Stalvey, Clydia Jo Nettles, Rebecca Altman, W. L. Mace, Aquilla Strickland, Bobbie Jane Altman, Donnetta Matthews, Helena Venters, Thera Mae Dennis, Thomas Powell, Dan Gaster, Mack Lambert, John Altman -
Johnsonville High School Class of 1953
Members of the Johnsonville High School senior class after receiving their diplomas at commencement, 1953.
The news article lists all of those in the picture, and a full real photograph is included for additional clarity.
First Row, L to R: Mary Hanna, Dorothy Lee Nettles, Eunice Mae Tanner, Lucille Thompson, Vera Thompson, Blanchie Lee Haselden, Clydia Nettles, Letha Mae, Parnell, Winifred Hanna, Wera Nell Miles, Betty Jane Tune, Merry Carol Huggins.
Second Row, L to R: Isabel Poston, Betty Powell, Yvonner Leta Hanna, Alice Faye Lee, Wilma Crosby, Shirley Perry, Henry Rhames Jr., Jackie Jones, Mrs. Mildred B. Hughes, Rebecca Altman, Doris Stone, Sally Jo Stalvey.
Third Row, L to R: J. W. Coker, Joseph Baxley, Bobbie Jean Altman, Leroy Hucks, Darby Evans, Don Melton, Horace Browder, J. W. Avant, Boyd Prosser, Donetta Matthews, Jimmy Bennett, Everett Crosby, Jay Gold Altman.
Jeanette Walters also graduated but is not pictured.
Also included is a photograph of Johnsonville honor graduates Betty Juanita Powell, Valedictorian, and Betty Jane Tune, Salutatorian.
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Johnsonville High School Class of 1931 Enjoys Reunion, 11-24-77
Johnsonville High School Class of 1931 Enjoys Reunion, The Weekly Observer 11-24-77 -
Johnsonville High School cheerleaders late 1970s
Pictured: Mona Lawrimore McDaniel, Staci Crocker Lyerly, Lyn McDaniel Bachelor, Sheila Davis Weaver, Gail Bachelor Weaver, Bonnie Prosser, Paula Ammons Alford, Renee Willis Sanders, and Audrey McDaniel -
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Johnsonville High School Bus Drivers, 1971
From the Gold and Black Yearbook, 1971 -
Johnsonville High School Bus Drivers 1949
Johnsonville school busdrivers, L to R: Humphries - Prospect, Lyerly - Vox, Gaskins - Johnsonville, Turner - Johnsonville, Richardson - Trinity -
Johnsonville High School Boy's Basketball Squad 1939
Hubert Haselden (Captain), Livingston Bishop, forwards; Robert Creel, Freeman Rchardson, guards; Carroll Taylor, center; Victor Johnson, J. W. O'Quinn, Ken Haselden, Cleland Tanner, substitutes. -
Johnsonville High School Baseball 1950
Images show: Delance Poston and John H Jones; Batboys Briley Taylor (6th grade) and Robert RJ Venters (4th grade); Wilson Cain (2nd Base) and Lenair Altman (catcher); Harry Gaskins (outfield) and John Louis Gaster (shortstop).