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Dedication for New Hemingway Motel c. 1965

Dedication of the new Hemingway Motel, aka The Coachman Inn.
L to R: J. P. Askins, Jr., Merrett E. Morris, L. Durwood Lewis, Aubrey Lewis, Senator Strom Thurmond.

Reverend James Ruet Gilland

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.

A Very Merry Johnsonville Christmas 12-22-1977

Magic Harbor Operating Schedule WO 7-28-77.pdf

Magic Harbor Sets Operating Schedule, 7-28-1977

Hilburn Stone Returns to His Old Home on Mill Branch Road Near Johnsonville, 12-20-1979

New Officer Joseph Schneider WO 4-4-74.pdf

New Johnsonville Police Officer Schneider Sworn In, 4-4-74

Local Business Receipts circa 1958

Local business receipts written out to the Huggins family circa 1958. Business included are:
Lentz Service Station
Haselden Brothers
Johnsonville Plumbing Company
TV Radio Service Order Saw Man Huggins
Johnsonville Hardware and Appliance Company
Hemingway Hardware Co
Z. H. McDaniel
Brown Brothers Supply Company
Pasley Brothers
Harry B Cox Groceries
B.A. Cox and Son Ards Crossroads
Cox Garage
Snowden's Auto and Electric
Cox Brothers Garage
Huggins Brothers Lumber
O.C. Eaddy Work Shop
Automotive Parts Company
Cribb Lumber Supply
W.B. Harmon and Company
Hemingway Welding Shop
Williamsburg Building Supply
Cox Garage Mechanical
Blackwell's Mill

Evelyn Willis and Caroline Lovett

Back of photo reads "This is a snap shot of Caroline (the other twin) and me - it was made about 4 years ago, but still looks just like us."

Gold and Black 1981

JHS Gold and Black 1981

Wellman Industries

Photo shows the main building at Wellman Industries, no specific date or source listed.

Ebenezer Methodist Church congregation 1920.jpg

Ebenezer Methodist Church 1920

Ebenezer Methodist Church (AKA Muddy Creek Methodist Church), 1920. Includes identification of most of the members pictured

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New Hope Free Will Baptist Church, circa 1950s

Image shows the old sanctuary for New Hope Free Will Baptist Church of the Pentecostal Faith, located on New Hope Road in Possum Fork. This sanctuary was replaced by a new building in the 1960s.
New Hope Free Will Baptist Church

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Members of New Hope FWB Church

Members of New Hope Free Will Baptist Church in Possum Fork. Pictured are Nellie Ruth Miles, Katie Hughes, Alfred E. Miles (pastor), Archie Powell, Blondell Stone, Earline Powell, and Elsie Powell

Reverend James Powell

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

Little Star Free Will Baptist Church, Prospect

Photo shows the original sanctuary of Little Star Free Will Baptist Church in the Prospect Community. This building was moved to make room for the new sanctuary and is now restored as a vacation home on Black River.

Olin and Eulalie Stone with children

Standing, L to R: Alston Willie Stone, Lamar Etrick Stone, Marvin Donald Stone, Gracie Stone, Effie Mae Stone, Annie Lou Stone, Fannie Stone, James Nathaniel (Son) and Marion (Tink)
Seated: Olin Bascom Stone, Eulalie Susan Altman Stone, Evelyn Pauline Stone

Olin and Eulalie Stone in front of their home on Eaddy Ford Road

Olin and Eulalie Stone lived on Eaddy Ford Road near the Vox Highway. Their daughter Evelyn Pauline Stone Emery lived here until she passed away in 2015 at the age of 99.
The home was built circa 1880 by E. F. Prosser. Olin Stone purchased the home from E. F. Prosser when the Prossers moved to Johnsonville in 1911.
The old home burned in the years after her death.

Bob Eaddy and John James Altman

Image shows Bob Eaddy and John James Altman, first Postmaster of Vox, with horses.

Marion Todd and Fleety Altman Todd

Marion Cornelius Todd (1910-1982) and Fleety Altman Todd (1911-1999).
Fleety was the daughter of Charles Haskel "Charlie" Altman (1884–1939), and Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Matthews (1889–1979). Marion was the son of Marion Sylvester Todd (1882–1964) and Mary Bell Phipps Todd (1885–1918)

Johnsonville: A Thriving Community of Opportunity and Advancement

Wofford-Askins Engagement Announced, 2-21-1974

Engagement of Jerome P Askins III and Donna Alice Wofford

Retired Johnsonville Barber Audry M Browder Displays Prize Tomatoes, 3-7-1974

Bartell's Crossroads

Bartell's Crossroads is located between Johnsonville and Indiantown. The two-story structure at the crossroads was built circa 1935. It was a country store operated by Vasker Calvineau Bartell and Elnora Cox Bartell. Elnora also worked at Wellman in the 1960s. Calvineau's father started operating a store at the crossroads around 1902 and a store operated there continuously through the 1970s. The original Bartell Brothers store at the crossroads burned in 1921 and was replaced by the 2-story building afterward. By the 1970s the second story porch had collapsed and the building was leaning about 10 degrees. Calvineau added a few telephone polls to brace the side of the building. "When the wind starts blowing, everybody starts leaving." one customer told the Florence Morning News in 1973.
One patron remembers that there was a small electric fence around the bread. Calvineau and Elnora's granddaughter Cindy Allen Joye has memories of the store: "I have memories of going there with granddad he would always lift me up so I could get a coke and then he would cut me a huge chunk of cheese and bologna. I loved him dearly."
The store closed after Calvineau passed away in 1976.

Ballou and Dukes Summerall Guards WO 9-29-77.pdf

Cadets Ray Ballou and Steve Dukes Are Named to Citadel's Summerall Guards, 9-29-1977

Halfway House, 6-20-1974

The Johnsonville-Hemingway Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse has leased this
house as a combination counseling center and "crash pad" to be run by Alvin
Cribb.

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Councilor Pansy Stone and Mayor Connie DeCamps, 1977

New Johnsonville councilor Pansy Hanna Stone poses with Johnsonville mayor Connie DeCamps. Pansy Stone was elected to Council in 1977.

Johnsonville Bicentennial Celebration, 1976

Photo shows festival goers and the old doctor's office on Broadway. The office was later replaced by a newer building to house the Johnsonville Pharmacy.

Hanna's Chapel, Vox, 1954

These photos show members of Hanna's Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church on Vox Highway in 1954. This sanctuary was in place before the current bricked sanctuary that still stands.

Stonewall Jackson Hughes Family circa 1896

This photograph shows Stonewall Jackson Hughes (seated, black hat) with his wife, children, and parents. Stone Hughes and Sarah Martha Thompson were married on March 22, 1879.
Front row seated, L to R: Wallie Jones Hughes, Sarah Martha Thompson Hughes, Jay Hughes, Stonewall Jackson Hughes holding Grace Hughes, Sidney Lenair Hughes, John Wesley Hughes, and Celia Cribb Hughes.
Standing L to R: unknown, Virginia Cribb, Martin Altman, unknown

A majority of this family is buried at Ebenezer Methodist Church cemetery in Muddy Creek, Williamsburg County.

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Ebenezer United Methodist Church

Image shows the older sanctuary, destroyed by fire in 1969.

Saint Mark Colored School

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.

Saint Luke Colored School

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.

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Corey Booker Visits Saint Mark A.M.E. Church, 2019

During his 2019 bid to win the democratic nomination, Senator Corey Booker visited Saint Mark A.M.E. Church in Johnsonville.

Grace Perry, 1950s

Edna Grace Perry (1872-1971) was a daughter of Llewellyn Francisco "Zeke" Perry (1868–1957) and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley (1870-1942). She was a well-known school teacher. Her obituary from 1971 speaks of her life and career:
FLORENCE MORNING NEWS, MAY 22, 1971
Miss Grace Perry, 78, retired school teacher, landowner, farmer, and church benefactor died Friday after a long illness. She had taught school for 38 years prior to her retirement and actively managed more than 1000 acres of farmlands...
Miss Perry was born near Hemingway, a daughter of the late Llewellyn Francisco and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley Perry. She was a graduate of Winthrop College and begun her teaching career in Ft. Myers, FL, where she taught elementary school for a year prior to returning to South Carolina.
Her teaching career in South Carolina spanned 37 years, in schools from the Piedmont to the Pee Dee, but most of her teaching was in Florence County. She had taught in the Johnsonville school system for a number of years prior to her retirement in the late 1950s.
Miss Perry was a member of the Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church and has been memorialized by the church as its benefactor. During the past several years, she personally contributed funds to the church which were used to renovate and refurbish the old, wood-frame structure into a modern brick church, replete with central heating and air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting, a Colonial-style frontage and edifice.
She also contributed funds for the construction of an education building for the church and subsequently presented the church with an especially manufactured electrical pipe organ. A plaque memorializes her contributions as "gifts of love for her God, Christ, and fellow man."
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Philip R. Helbig of Johnsonville, and a few nieces and nephews.

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