Williamsburg County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census its population was 31,026. The county seat and largest community is Kingstree. After a previous incarnation of Williamsburg County, the current county was created in 1804.
Kingstree is a city and the county seat of Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,328 at the 2010 census.
The Kingstree Historic District contains forty-eight properties situated along Main Street, Academy Street, and Hampton Street in the commercial area of downtown Kingstree, South Carolina. The district includes the courthouse, public library, railroad station, and numerous commercial buildings. The district is a fine collection of nineteenth-century vernacular commercial architecture. Details such as arched doorways and windows, cast-iron columns and pilasters, decorative or corbelled brickwork and pressed tin interior ceilings are present on most of the district's buildings. The Williamsburg County Courthouse, built ca. 1823, and designed by Robert Mills, is a fine example of Roman neoclassical design with its raised first floor, pediment with lunette, and Doric columns. In 1953-54 the courthouse underwent substantial remodeling on the exterior and interior, though it still reflects much of Mill's original design. With the exception of the courthouse, most of the buildings in the district were built between 1900 and 1920 when Kingstree enjoyed prosperity as a retail and tobacco marketing center of Williamsburg County. The majority of the buildings in the district are a visible record of this twenty-year growth and the historic fabric of the area remains substantially intact. The Kingstree Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places June 28, 1982.
Kingstree station is a train station in Kingstree, South Carolina, operated by Amtrak, the United States' railroad passenger system. It was originally built by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1909. The station survived the merger of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroads into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1967, only to terminate passenger service in 1971. Amtrak service to Kingstree began on June 15, 1976, with the introduction of the Palmetto. The station is currently part of the Kingstree Historic District.
Philip Henry Stoll was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Salters is a small unincorporated community in the southwest central portion of Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States, in the state's Low Country region. The zip code is 29590 and the area code is 843. Charleston, South Carolina and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina are within driving distance of Salters making for an enjoyable day trip to either. Forestry is the main industry in Williamsburg County. Nearby towns include Kingstree, Greeleyville, and Lane. Salters is the location of Federal Correctional Institution, Williamsburg. The Salters Plantation House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Henry Mouzon II was a colonial-era American patriot and civil engineer. He prepared the definitive survey of the North and South Carolina Colonies prior to the start of the American Revolutionary War. He served as an officer of the Continental Line and as a militia officer in Francis Marion's Brigade, where he distinguished himself in the Battle of Black Mingo.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
Horry-Guignard House is a historic home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built before 1813, and is a two-story, late Federal style, modified I-house type frame dwelling. The front facade features a one-story, full-width balustraded porch supported by square columns. During the winter of 1813–1814, the main hall was widened from six feet to eleven feet. To do this, the house was sawed in half and the two ends were pulled apart to rest on two new foundations. It was probably built by Peter Horry (1747-1815), a Revolutionary War Colonel and Brigadier General of the South Carolina Militia. Later, the house was acquired by John Gabriel Guignard (1751-1822), the Surveyor General of South Carolina from 1798 to 1802. Guignard is responsible for the early design of the city and laid out the first streets of Columbia.
Scott House, also known as the Scott-Hauenstein House, is a historic home located at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1843, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame building, sheathed in weatherboard, with a side-gabled roof and brick foundation. The front façade features a "Carolina" or "rain porch." Its builder was Joseph Scott, a wealthy planter, trustee of the Kingstree Academy, and politician. It is the oldest on-site house in Kingstree.
Thorntree, also known as the Witherspoon House, is a historic plantation house located at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1749 by immigrant James Witherspoon (1700-1765), and is a two-story, five-bay, frame "I-house" dwelling with a hall and parlor plan and exterior end chimneys. It features full-length piazzas on the front and rear elevations. To preserve it, the house was moved from an inaccessible rural site to Kingstree on land donated as a memorial park, known as Fluitt-Nelson Memorial Park. The house has been restored to its 18th-century appearance and is open to the public by appointment with the Williamsburg Historical Society.
Gamble House is a historic farmhouse located near Nesmith, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It dates to the early-19th century, and is a small wooden dwelling set upon brick piers with a steeply pitched gable roof. It consists of a central two-story core, with later additions of small one-story wings.
McCollum-Murray House, also known as the C. E. Murray House, is a historic home located at Greeleyville, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Built c. 1906, the house was the home of African-American educator Dr. Charles Edward Murray, and is an example of transitional folk Victorian and Classical Revival residential architecture. It was originally a two-story, T-shaped dwelling. It features a wraparound one-story porch. It has a single-story rear gabled addition, with another single-story shed-roofed addition built in the 1950s.
John Calvin Wilson House is a historic home located near Indiantown, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame central-hall plan I-house. It features a shed roofed, one-story "Carolina" or "rain porch" supported by four stuccoed brick columns. A one-story frame rear wing was added in 1939. John Calvin Wilson was a politician and a successful planter. He died at Richmond, Virginia of complications from a thigh wound sustained in the Battle of Cold Harbor.
M. F. Heller House, also known as the Arrowsmith House and Old Methodist Church Parsonage, is a historic home located at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1845 and enlarged about 1895 to a substantial two-story Late Victorian residence. It is a two-story, lateral-gabled residence, sheathed in weatherboard and set on a stuccoed brick pier foundation. It is the only antebellum residence built within the original limits of Kingstree.
New Market, also known as the McDonald-Rhodus-Lesesne House, is a historic home and national historic district located near Greeleyville, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 2 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites. The house was built about 1820, and a one-story, frame extended Double Pen house over a raised brick basement. It features a typical "rain porch" on the front of the house supported by four tapered and chamfered wooden posts. Also on the property are a 1 1/2-story frame tobacco pack house, the foundation of a greenhouse, and a pecan avenue and grove.
Rev. John E. Pressley House is a historic home located near Bethpage, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was built between 1837 and 1851, and is a small two-story Federal and Greek Revival style log house. It served as the manse for the Coddle Creek and the New Perth Associate Reformed Presbyterian Churches between 1850 and 1900.
Epps-Mcgill Farmhouse is a two-story Folk Victorian style 3,658 square feet (339.8 m2)home located near Kingstree, in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Construction of the home began in 1905 by Silas Wightman Epps. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
Two Black men were Lynched in Florence County, South Carolina near the border with Williamsburg County, South Carolina for allegedly having relations with a white woman. The news did not reach the national media until January 8, 1922, and so is recorded as the first lynching of 1922 in America. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary there were 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.
The Kingstree jail fire killed 22 prisoners on the evening of Monday, January 7, 1867, in the Williamsburg County seat of Kingstree, South Carolina, United States. One white prisoner escaped the building and survived, but all of the African-American prisoners, incarcerated on the third floor, were killed. Attempts to rescue the 19 men and 3 women left in the building were ineffective. By the time action was taken, the billowing smoke and heat were overwhelming.
