Trinity School in disrepair after it consolidated with Johnsonville
Tobacco Workers - Florence County - 1938
The Cottage Lunch and Gulf Station, Georgetown Highway at Broadway Street in Johnsonville
The station was run by Eunice and Herman Lentz and was located at Highway 41 and Possum Fork Road.
The Bargain House was located on Highway 41 near the intersection with Broadway. In the 1960s this building was home to Tri City Distributors, run by Arris Powell and George Todd. It was situated between the Cottage Lunch and Gulf Station (right) and the Red and White grocery store run by Abe Lyerly to the left. To the left of the Red and White was a furniture store run by George Williams and to the left of that was a Barber Shop run by Price Hughes and later by Osborne Cribb and his family. Later a parts place was built and run by a Mr. Baxley
The present business was opened by businessmen Billy King and John Taylor as “The Chick Supreme.” Macky DeCamps owns the building. The business is now run by sisters Carolyn Palumbo, Lavonia Olsen and Dixie Evans.
Stringing Tobacco - Florence County - 1938
The Johnsonville Theatre was owned by Chevis Prosser and located on Broadway. It ceased operations around 1964 and burned in May of 1977. The burnt building was torn down on May 12, 1977.
Railroad crossing downtown, Johnsonville SC
View of the old railroad crossing lights from Broadway looking West toward Railroad Avenue. Prosser's Department Store is visible.
R. B. Huggins's shop, The Johnsonville Motor Company, was located on Broadway
Christine Poston and Blanche Dennis at Poston's Lunch on Broadway
Poston's Lunch was run by Christine Hatchell Poston (left). It was located on Broadway near the parking lot of the old Nettles IGA Christine H. Hatchell Poston (1904 - 1956) was married to Lurie Poston (1900-1973), Chief of Police for Johnsonville Their children were: Uldine Poston Cooper (1926 - 2002) Lurie Preston Poston (1928 - 1991) Maisie Poston Ballou (1931 - 2012) Jean Poston McDaniel (1932 - 1979) Algie Ray Poston Cox (1936 - 2012)
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.
This location was later known as Westside Grocery and was run by the Nettles family.
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 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.
Pictured in front of Midway Cleaners is owner, Ora Lee Springs Hanna
Also previously known as Wellman Station Philips 66, this location is currently the Skinning Shed game processing. Photos are from 1965 and 1973.
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)
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.
Johnsonville Police Officers, circa 1955
L to R: Lee Powers, Bubba Haselden, Police Chief Lurie Poston Sr.
L-R: Frank Matthews, Jerry Stone, Steve Knight
Jerry Stone (L) & Steve Haselden (R) packing the foundation of the new Johnsonville Fire Department building on Broadway.
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.
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 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.
Looking east from the city limit sign by Westside Grocery
Johnsonville Town Hall with police car, 1954