Gold and Black 1979
description: JHS Gold and Black 1979

Gold and Black 1963
description: JHS Gold and Black Yearbook, class of 1963
date: 1963

Johnsonville State Bank circa 1954
description: Johnsonville State Bank is pictured here at an older location, circa 1954 at approximately 122 West Broadway Street. In June of 1956, JSB moved across the street to a new state of the art facility with air conditioning.
date: 1954

Broadway Street in Johnsonville looking East, circa 1954
description: Broadway looking East, circa 1954. Pictured: Tomlinson's & Venters, P.D. Poston Grocery (later Turner's IGA). Not yet built are the Johnsonville Pharmacy or the old Johnsonville Post Office (which opened in 1958).
date: 1954
contributor: Florence County Museum

Gold and Black 1970
description: Gold and Black Yearbook, 1970
date: 1970

Johnsonville Looked Good To a Boy From Possum Fork
subject: Gid Haselden reminisces on his childhood in Possum Fork and how Johnsonville has changed over the years (including a fire that destroyed most of town.)
description: 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…
source: Florence Morning News
date: 1 March 1959

Cooperative Attitudes Aid Johnsonville's Big Growth
description: Story of Johnsonville's recent growth due to Wellman, plus article about new church, Westside Free Will Baptist
source: Florence Morning News
date: June 27, 1956

Pete and Everlina Jacobs
description: Pete Jacobs (1924-2011) and Everlina Skinner Jacobs (b. 1928). Everlina and Pete were the first family to move into the Bluefield community when it was still an old mule road in a field with tobacco barns. In their time they've seen Bluefield thrive, age, and decline through the years.

Anthony "Tinkum" Skinner and Pearl Skinner
description: Anthony Tinkum Skinner (1903-1972) and Pearleen Flowers Skinner (1902-1999) farmed in and around the Johnsonville area.
date: circa 1970

Poston's Lunch Diner and Sinclair Station, Broadway Street
description: This station and diner was run by Lurie and Christine Poston. It was located on Broadway Street in Johnsonville beside the railroad tracks.
date: 1940s

Johnsonville High School Class of 1953 Senior Trip to Washington, DC
description: 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

Ebenezer United Methodist Church engraving
description: This collectors plate engraving shows the original Ebenezer UMC building (1917-1958)

Seaboard Air Right of Way Map - 1918
description: Shows the right of way and parcels of land purchased from landowners C. Belle Poston, S.B. Poston, R.H. Kimball, and J.D. Haselden. Also includes street grid of Johnsonville in 1918.
source: US Department of Archives
date: 30 Jun 1918

First Graders, Muddy Creek School 1954
description: In 1954 there were too many 1st grade students for all to attend Hemingway Grammar School, so some of the students were located at the Muddy Creek School. There was also one 2nd grade class that attended at this time
date: 1954

Muddy Creek School

Tom Thumb Wedding, Muddy Creek School
date: 1954

Old Johnsonville High School Diploma, 1915
description: 1915 Diploma, Old Johnsonville High School. Ottis Guinan Huggins was an honor graduate.
date: 1915

Sawman Huggins and Jim Huggins at Huggins Brothers Lumber Company
description: Ottis Sr. and Jim Huggins in front of the "Little Store" in the lumber mill area, circa 1952. Huggins Brothers Lumber Company was by Ottis "Sawman" Huggins Jr. (1922-1985). It was located at Ards Crossroads by the railroad track. Huggins established the lumber company in November, 1919 when he returned from WWI.
date: 1952

Venters Community Aerial Photo
description: Venters Community at Ards Crossroads, site of Huggins Brothers Lumber Company. Note the Old Johnsonville Cemetery , upper left corner of photo. Old Johnsonville School was located on this property, next to Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church.

Saw Man Huggins, Mac & Barbara McClendon
description: Elm Street, Johnsonville, SC; Mac McClendon owned and operated the sand pits just outside Johnsonville

Brown's Tobacco Seed
description: Owner and operator, Julian David Brown, Sr. Uncle Julian built a seed separator and packaged the seeds for sale.
date: c. 1955

Johnsonville City Council Members, 1955
description: L to R: Odell Venters, Bonner "Mac" McClendon, unidentified, Mayor Joseph T. Huggins.
date: c. 1954

American Legion Hut
date: 1950

Johnsonville Legion Ceremony
description: 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
date: 30 April 1950

Last Will and Testament of George Samuel Briley Huggins
description: The will of George Samuel Briley Huggins was written on letterhead from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Johnsonville on Nov. 18, 1912. C. J. Rollins was the Manager, J. S. McClam, President, S. B. Poston, vice President and T. J. Cottingham was the cashier
date: November 18, 1912

Johnson Memorial Hospital
description: Dr. Allen Huggins Johnson, founder

Hemingway High School Library
description: Hemingway High School Library
date: c. 1955

Marion Stars In New Drama
subject: Article describing the making of The Swamp Fox, a Disney series starting Leslie Nielsen as General Francis Marion. Local mentions of Snow's Island are described.
source: The State Newspaper
date: 1959

Saint Paul's Presbyterian Church

Gold and Black 1980
description: JHS Gold and Black, class of 1980
date: 1980

Gold and Black 1960
description: Gold and Black 1960 yearbook
date: 1960

Gold and Black 1961
description: JHS Gold and Black yearbook, class of 1961

Live Town Springs Up From Woods of Pine
description: Description of the very early days of Johnsonville after incorporation, 1913.
source: The State
date: Thursday, March 27, 1913

Johnsonville Post Office Holds New Rating
source: Florence Morning News
publisher: Florence Morning News
date: 27 June 1956

Stuckey Blue Jay 1969
description: This yearbook chronicles Stuckey School in one of its final years, 1968-1969. A few years later Stuckey was fully integrated to Johnsonville schools, and the old Stuckey School became Johnsonville Middle School. Click here for the history of Stuckey School.
date: 1969
contributor: Stephanie Nesmith Forte, James Nesmith (c/o 1968), and Emma Nesmith (c/o 1967)

Gold and Black 1941
description: 1941 is the third edition of the Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville. All of the photos are hand-pasted into the document. This copy has been edited to enlarge and improve the original photographs, and used 2 copies as source records. Both copies were missing some photographs.
contributor: Ned and Mary Dean Huggins and Livingston "Bo" Bishop

Gold and Black 1940
subject: Yearbook
description: 1940 is the second edition of the Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville. All of the photos are hand-pasted into the document. This copy has been edited to enlarge and improve the original photographs. Any missing photographs were missing from the source document provided by Livingston "Bo" Bishop and his granddaughter, Heidi Bishop Dumm.
date: 1940
contributor: Heidi Bishop Dumm and Livingston "Bo" Bishop

Children of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church celebrate the completion of the new sanctuary, 1960.
date: 1960

St. Paul Presbyterian Church
date: 1957-1960

First Female Highway Patrol from Johnsonville
description: December 1977 One of the first female highway patrol officers - Carolyn Mcdaniel Hartfield
date: 1977
contributor: Carolyn McDaniel Hartfield

William James "Billy" Cox family
description: This photo was originally contributed to the Johnsonville Library Altman Genealogy and Local History Digital Collections by Noonie Eaddy Stone. Pictured: Billy and Jean Cox with all of their children in front of house taken in Williamsburg County. (Back Row Left to Right) Ethel Cox, Elizabeth Cox (mother of Thetis Prosser), William Shell Cox, Mary Cox, Emily Cox, Flutte Cox. (Front Row Left to Right) Lille Cox, Bud Walter Cox, Jean Stone Cox, William (Billy) Cox, O'Rella Narcissus Cox, Jasper Cox

Rehobeth Church, 1954
description: Photo displayed at the Centennial celebration of Rehobeth Church in 2009. A few of those pictured are Cortez, Merlyn, Gail, and Pam Cox, Ronald Cox, Cletus Cox, Sherrell Cox, and Vaughn Eaddy.
date: 1954

William James "Billy" Cox and Sarah Jane Stone Cox
description: William James "Billy" Cox Jr (1842–1921) and Sarah Jane Stone Cox (1850–1924) were the founders of Rehobeth Pentecostal Holiness Church.

John Briley Altman and Ethel Cox Altman.
description: John Briley Altman and Ethel Cox Altman. Ethel was the daughter of William James "Uncle Billy" Cox and Sarah Jane Stone Cox. John Briley was the son of was the son of John James Altman, first Postmaster for Vox.
contributor: Noonie Stone

Grave of John Witherspoon
description: Grave of John Witherspoon (1742-1802), located at the old Aimwell Presbyterian Church burial grounds, Old River Road at McWhite Road. John took control of Witherspoon's Ferry (now Venters Landing at Johnsonville) after his older brother Robert Witherspoon died with no issue in 1787. Witherspoon's Ferry had already been in use during the Revolution, and this spot served as the backdrop for General Francis Marion's commission to lead the militia. John and Robert were both sons of Gavin Witherspoon and Jane James, who came from Knockbracken, Ireland to Williamsburg. John was a patriot during the American Revolution, serving as a private with Marion's Brigade in the Britton's Neck Regiment for 244 days in 1780 and 1781. In 1801 it was ordered that a Ferry should be re-established and vested in John's care. John married Mary Conn and had one child, Elizabeth, who later married David Rogerson Williams, Governor of South Carolina from 1814-1816. John Witherspoon died in 1802, and according to the terms of his will, the ferry was re-established and vested in John D. Witherspoon, executor and friend, for a term of 14 years beginning in 1815, “in trust for and having the sole benefit of the incorporated Presbyterian Church at Aimwell on the Pee Dee River." John's will also stipulated that William J. Johnson be given rights to the Ferry site under condition: "It is my will and desire that the trustees aforesaid or their successors shall give William Johnson the present use of the lands aforesaid the exclusive privilege of leasing the lands aforesaid for a term of 12 years provided the said William Johnson on the wisdom of the said trustees aforesaid shall conduct himself with propriety." It was John Witherspoon who vested the ferry lands in William Johnson, who later established the post office at Johnsonville which became the town we know today.

Map of Johnsonville - 1912
description: Map of the Town of Johnsonville - Sold Aug 12, 1912 This map shows the lots available in the Johnsonville land sale.
date: 12 Aug 1912

Vonnie Hanna Dukes

Morgan Ham and Octavia Elizabeth Stone Carter Family

Arles and Violet Hanna
description: Arles Timmons Hanna and Violet Elizabeth Carter Hanna

Gold and Black 1972
description: Gold and Black yearbook 1972
date: 1972