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Members of New Hope FWB Church, Possum Fork circa 1900

Photograph shows members and identities of church members of New Hope Free Will Baptist Church. The church met at the home behind them in 1900. A sanctuary was completed in 1917.

Phillips 66 - Westside

This location was later known as Westside Grocery and was run by the Nettles family.

Pargas 1968, Hemingway SC

Pargas is a propane company with a branch formerly located in Hemingway, SC.

Outside the Poston's Lunch diner on Broadway

Ottis Huggins Jr. and Sr. at Little Store, Huggins Mill

Johnsonville United Methodist Church

Johnsonville United Methodist Church formed in 1915 when a group of former members of Old Johnsonville Methodist Church withdrew to organize in the newly incorporated town of Johnsonville.
For about three years the group worshipped in the Baptist Church of Johnsonville. It was during this period that half of a city block was donated to the congregation at the corner of present day East Broadway Street and Georgetown Highway.
A framed church structure was completed on the property in 1918 and was dedicated the following year. In that same year, a two-story parsonage was erected to the north on Georgetown Highway and the first pastor, a Rev. Morris, moved in.
In the following years, this church served as part of a circuit with Vox, Trinity and Prospect Methodist Churches. The pastor alternated services between the churches from Sunday to Sunday. In the early years he was often paid in some small cash donations, along with produce, chickens and milk.
The first addition to the church was built in 1927 with the addition of Sunday school rooms in the back.
In 1946 half of the vacant property and the old parsonage were sold. A new and smaller parsonage was completed in 1947 on the property immediately behind the church. In 1956 the Johnsonville church was moved from charge to single station with its own pastor.
Remodeling in 1959 of the building added new class rooms and updated the sanctuary.
A building fund was established in 1961 for the purpose of building additional educational facilities. Soon after, this program was expanded to a New Church Building Fund. The property known as the “Doctor Eaddy Estate” was purchased and a new building was completed in 1965.
The first service was held there on Dec. 26 of that year in the fellowship hall, which has since been named Poston Hall in memory of an early benefactor, Mr. S.B. Poston. A brick veneer parsonage was erected in 1967 behind the present church.
The original Johnsonville Methodist Church building was sold and moved in pieces, some of which ended up in Possum Fork. The site is now a park.

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Midway Dry Cleaners

Pictured in front of Midway Cleaners is owner, Ora Lee Springs Hanna

Tags business, cleaners, Hanna, Midway, Springs

Maisie and Ballou in tobacco

Lyerly's Service Station

Also previously known as Wellman Station Philips 66, this location is currently the Skinning Shed game processing. Photos are from 1965 and 1973.

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Police Chief Lurie Poston, Sr. with police car on Broadway Street

Chief of Police Lurie P. Poston stands with his police car on Broadway.
Visible in the background is a liquor store that later became a garden shop and now Health Care Partners (right), as well as a small white building removed when the parking lot was added for Turner's IGA. To the right - Johnsonville Pharmacy and Venters' Department Store.

Mr. Lurie Poston (1900-1973) was the son of Preston Poston and Julia Miles. He was born in Hannah and moved to Johnsonville in 1934, where he was both a merchant and a farmer. He served as Chief of Police for 14 years and Magistrate for 16 years.

He married first to Christine H. Hatchell Poston (1904 - 1956) and at her death married Alphia McKenzie Stroud (1911 - 2004)

His children with Christine were:
Uldine Poston Cooper (1926 - 2002)
Lurie Preston Poston Jr. (1928 - 1991)
Maisie Poston Ballou (1931 - 2012)
Jean Poston McDaniel (1932 - 1979)
Algie Ray Poston Cox (1936 - 2012)

Lewis's One Stop Grocery

James Lewis owned the business in the 1990s. Earlier, it was knows as Hunts. Many local businessmen and other patrons stopped here for a cold beer and a hotdog.

Lentz Service Station 1973

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Johnsonville Police Officers, circa 1955

L to R: Lee Powers, Bubba Haselden, Police Chief Lurie Poston Sr.

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Johnsonville Volunteer Fire Dept. 1968

L-R: Frank Matthews, Jerry Stone, Steve Knight

Johnsonville Volunteer Fire Dept, 1968

Jerry Stone (L) & Steve Haselden (R) packing the foundation of the new Johnsonville Fire Department building on Broadway.

Johnsonville Train Station 1970

Johnsonville School Bus in snow, 1968

Johnsonville Rescue Squad members

Johnsonville Public Pool 1973

Johnsonville Pharmacy

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Johnsonville City Officials, 1950s

Standing L to R: Eugene Newell, Police Chief Lurie Poston, unknown, and Alfred "Bubba" Haselden. Sitting L to R: H.M. Feagin, David Marsh Sr., Andrew James Cox, Mayor Odell Venters.

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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 Pentecostal Holiness Church

Johnsonville Pentecostal Holiness Church on Highway 41.

Johnsonville Gym

Johnsonville First Baptist Church - old building

Various photographs of the original sanctuary for Johnsonville First Baptist Church. The building was completed in 1914 on land donated by Mrs. S. Eleanor Haselden Eaddy. Trees for wood were donated by members and friends of the church. The lumber was sawed by E.B. Poston and hand-planed by Morris Powell. T.F.S. Weatherby supervised the construction.

Johnsonville City Limits - Westside

Looking east from the city limit sign by Westside Grocery

Johnsonville Town Hall with police car, 1954

Johnsonville Bus Drivers 1950

Johnsonville Auditorium

Johnsonville train station, 1970

Johnson Memorial Hospital

Johnson Memorial Hospital was located in Hemingway, SC.and opened in April of 1940. it was owned and operated by chief surgeon Dr. Allen Huggins Johnson, who also owned the Pee Dee Telephone Company.

The vacant building was listed for sale in 1981. A notorious last note in the history of the building occurred when Patches Kalb was arrested in 1983 for impersonating a doctor and running an illegal clinic out of the old hospital building.

The building was torn down to make way for a new Food Lion grocery store which opened its doors on May 4, 1986.

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