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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Barksdale, South Carolina
- ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Palmetto Place Names. Sloane Printing Co. p. 22.
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