https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/7032cdc709f50ebe476ef74ef1096ca4.pdf bac9562a0fa89b855ffce7913b698d64 PDF Text Text 011r Human Heritage Our Human Heritage A New Town ls Born A e w Town Is Born t 'ontlnued rrom Page I I New Store One of th e earliest businesses in Hemingway was the Eaddy and Creel Brothers, In c. s tore which was located a t the site of the present Town Hall. and was quite new when the above picture was made. The business handled general 1ner c handise. but in addition they imported m any luxury items which had not been available locally before, which made it quite excitin g. Pictured above. left to rig ht , are Chares and l\1arlon Eaddy. sons or J .M.G.Eaddy. one of the owners: \\'hite Johnson : Clarence Creel and Kenneth E . Creel , both owners: Miss Cleo Clyburn. milliner , who later marri ed Fitzhugh Eaddy: and J.M .G Eaddy. owner. expected to fill the pulpit when need arose. A "fringe" benefit to the community was the number of marriages that took place between the local young men and the teachers who came here from other places. Social life centered on the school. The teachers arrived by train at Lake City on Friday or Saturday before the Monday school was to open and went to church on Sunday to be inspected by the public. Elizabeth Eaddy says that "The Saturday after the first week of school, a picnic was held. Every patron of the school came bearing baskets of food. Barbecues were prepared, washpots of rice cooked, in addition to barrelfulls of lemonade made. Here the teachers met the people whom they were to serve." The literary societies, socials and fund-raising activities brought out the entire entertainment starved community. The more prosperous families made biennial shopping trips to Charleston. They usually left home after the midday meal, driving a buggy to Lake City where they stabled the horses and spent the night , leaving by train the next morning for Charleston, where they remained for a week. The flour, rice, coffee, sugar, and such dry goods as bolts of homespun and bleach ; as well as the standard medicines--castoroil, Epsom salt, quinine, paregoric, laudanwn, and Sloan's liniment-·were bought and shipped by water to Smith's Mill. Old Johnsonville seemed to have all the requisites for development when a quirk of fate cut short its growth and precipifated Lambert and Johnsonville onto stage. In 1911 the Seaboard Airline Co. projected a railroad f oom Mullins to Andrews, which was to run through this section of country. With a growing church and school at Old Johnsonville, as well as several businesses, it was expected that the depot would be built there By E. Y. EADDY I l r •, I J t •• .'• ) l l ) •• t •- ' l l l 1 t l -,. . • • , , • •• I ' •l I l •• t •, •l • • The Methodist Church of 1872, followed by the area's first "graded" school, which was completed in 1903, assured Old Johnsonville of a heyday that lasted a ·decade. A parsonage was completed about the same year that the school was moved from Belin 's Store to its own new two-story building, and Old Johnsonville became the center of a Methodist Church circuit that also included Ebenezer al Muddy Creek, Good Hope, and Prospect. The parsonage stood at the approximate site of the later J . D. Brown home and was built on land given by N. M. Venters. The ox cart and wagon, in these first two or three years of the twentieth century, were being replaced by baggies and carriages. The most common type was the ••top·· buggy with s teel rimmed wheels. The rubber tired buggy ··was the height of extragavance." wrote Elizabeth W. Eaddy, "and the object of much envy." It was more to be desired than an automobile, which was totally out of reach for most people and impractical for the poor roads and unbridged streams. A rubber-tired buggy, however, might someday be obtained. The Old Johnsonville school grew so rapidly that soon there were six teachers employed and a music teacher was added. Inadequate as it might seem to us today. it was a "far cry" from the one room, one teacher school that operated for one three months term each year. Elizabeth Eaddy writes, '"A great deal was expected of the teachers in the community as well as in the classroom. The trustees were conscientious in their selection i>f principal and his teachers. All teachers were expected to attend church regularly and a teacher who was unwilling to teach a Sunday SchOQl class need not expect to be reelected." Teachers were paid $40.00 a month and paid $12.50 for room and board. The principal was , • • • • r • • • • • .. ' .. f Continued to Page 6 • ' • • I • • • 0 ,. 'I ll It • Lamberts Store One of the earllnt 1toret In &he history of Hem~. lormerl,y kaowo •• 1.ambert, was &h• old LamHr& Store which atood at &be intenecdon of 1U1bway Zll and 41, where &be Sonoco 1ervlee nation now atandl. The • Id store bu a h.lttorlcal background II. E. Eaddy purchued It from w. c. Hemm1wa1 ... operated a bualneu U.erela for. appro:slmately 25 yea.ra. The wlllp were later removed, and It wa1 ren&ed lo a Ion& Ila&of tenan&a, lbe la1t ol whom • • bellefe,d lo~ Jowers Used Furniture, before It wa1 torn doWQ to anake way JOI' th lllad'!a• building wblcb now tt1nda in Its plaee. and that the community would continue its growth. The major landowners at Old Johnsonville were N. M . Venters , L . L . Ard, Mrs. M. V. Cox, Mrs . Judith Grier Eaddy, and her son , Henry Edward Eaddy, who owned and operated the general store and lien business. A law suit and land entailment delayed the arrangements for giving a clear title to part of the land needed by the railroad, and the neighboring Johnsonville and Lambert seized their chance. S. B. Poston, who held titled to or mortgages on much of the property at Johnsonville, had a town surveyed and held public auctions to sell lots in 1912. The · town was incorporated May 24 , 1913. At Lambert the Hemingway family were Poston 's counterpart. Court House records indicate that the Lambert Land and Development Co. was organized for the purpose of developing the area that later became Hemingway. The origin of Lambert is somewhat obscure. B. G. Lambert had acquired large amounts of land here by 1880 and owned and operated a general store at th~ junction of the Stage Coach and Kingstree roads, now Main and Broad. A post office was . established in the store in 1900. ~ The Hemingway family, with their roots in Georgetown County, had become wealthy as cotton farmers and merchants and succeeded Lambert as the major land owner in the area. An entire deed book in the Williamsburg County Court House is devoted to recording the lots sold Farmers flocked into • here. Lambert to attend the publi~ auctions, either to enjoy the excite~ent or to think long and earnestly about the wisdom of investing in non-farm property. Sales began Oct. 2, 1911. The following grantors are recorded in 1911·12: A. B. Poston, B. A. Grier, W. A. Lawrimore, R, B. Lawrimore, A. F. Prinsler J-. H. and Lambert with the outside world, Old Johnsonville soon ceased to be the community focus. Henry Edison Eaddy wrote from Johnsonville to his grandaughter on June 2, 1912. "'We have passenger train every day at 12. It passes about a quarter of a mile west of the P. 0 . No depot bldg. as yet. It would be several years, however , before either Johnsonville or Lambert, which became Hemingway , would enjoy the advantages of church and school that still existed at Old Johnsonville. One of the early businesses to get underway brought color and pleasure into the lives of the area's women. This was the Eaddy-Creel Bros . Merchandise chartered April 19, 1912. Among its services was that of a milliner. Having a hat made had involved an arduous trip to Lake City. Miss Birney and tater Miss Cleo Blyburn created the ha ts worn by well-bred women. The Bank of Hemingway was chartered May 13, 1912, with Dr. W. C. Hemingway, H. L. Baker, H. E . Eaddy, N. M. Venters, J . E . Hemingway, W. C. Rollins, F. E . Huggins, J . M. G. Eaddy and John Richardson Jr., as directors. It began with a capital stock of $15,000 and paid regular dividends annually to stock holders until 1920, when the capital stock was increased from $15,000 to $50,000 and the old stock holders that year received 50 per cent stock dividend and a cash dividend of 26 per cent. The Huggins-Eaddy Hardware was chartered to F . E . Huggins and H. E. Eaddy Nov . 13, 1913t with · these brothers-in-law riding daily Ardts Cross Roads to 1 from \ supervise building. Eaddy soon bought the Hemingway Mercantile businea at the northeastern comer of Main and Broad and the partnership was dissolved. Tile Huggins Hardware is the oldest continuously operating businea in Hemingway. The tremendous wooden building that housed the Eaddy store became a landmark, standing for years aft Ea~ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Hemingway: A New Town Is Born, 1-29-1976 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1-29-1976 News Newspaper Weekly Observer