Batesburg-Leesville is a town in Lexington and Saluda counties, South Carolina, United States. The town's population was 5,362 as of the 2010 census and an estimated 5,415 in 2019.
Midlands Technical College is a public technical college with multiple locations in the Richland, Lexington, and Fairfield counties of South Carolina. The college is one of South Carolina's largest two-year college with approximately 16,000 students. It offers approximately one hundred associate degrees, diplomas and certificate programs of study and is the largest source of transfer students to the University of South Carolina-Columbia.
Dal Shealy is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mars Hill College—now known as Mars Hill University—in 1969, Carson–Newman College—now known as Carson–Newman University—from 1970 to 1973, and at the University of Richmond from 1980 to 1988, compiling a career college football record of 79–74. Shealy also served as an assistant coach at Baylor University, the University of Tennessee, Auburn University, and Iowa State University. He grew up in Batesburg, South Carolina, now Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina and attended Batesburg-Leesville High School and Carson–Newman College—now known as Carson–Newman University. Shealy's son, Vic Shealy, is currently the head football coach at Houston Baptist University.
South Carolina Highway 245 (SC 245) is a 5.060-mile-long (8.143 km) state highway in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The highway was built and paved in 1932 as a short spur of SC 24 passing north through Leesville to connect with SC 391. Since being built, that section of SC 24 was redesignated as US 178 in 1933, and Leesville merged in 1992 with Batesburg, where US 1 and SC 391 intersect, to form the town of Batesburg-Leesville. It is known locally as North Lee Street north of the railroad tracks, and as South Lee Street south of the railroad tracks. There are two traffic lights along SC 245.
Simon Bouknight House is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1890, and is a one-story, weatherboarded Victorian cottage under a gabled roof. It has a gabled projecting central porch supported by four regularly spaced slender wood posts; front and end gables with cornice returns and centered, diamond-shaped windows; and corbeled chimneys. The house is set on a lattice brick foundation.
Broadus Edwards House, also known as the Paul Garber House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1905, and is a 1 1/2-story, Queen Anne style weatherboard residence set on a brick foundation. It has a two-story turret under a tent roof and a bay surmounted by a pedimented cross gable. The house was built by Broadus Edwards, prominent Batesburg merchant, mortician, and town councilman.
Hartley House, also known as the Bond-Bates-Hartley House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built before 1800, and is a 2 1/2-story, weatherboard dwelling with a two-story portico adapted from the Greek Revival. It has a closed brick foundation and a gable roof. The portico is supported by two square wooden pillars set outside a pair of smaller pillars. According to local tradition, the house served as a stagecoach stop and post office prior to the founding of Batesburg.
A. C. Jones House is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1904, and is a California bungalow form influenced weatherboard residence. The hipped roof has three large, hipped dormers. The dormers, roof, and projecting wraparound porch have exposed rafters. The house and porch sit on a granite foundation.
McKendree Mitchell House is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1873, and is a 1 1/2-story, Greek Revival style cottage on a brick foundation. It is sheathed in weatherboard and features a projecting central gabled portico.
Mitchell-Shealy House, also known as the Berley Shealy House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story weatherboard residence that combines Greek Revival and Italianate features. It consists of a rectangular central block and one-story, centered rear ell. It features a central projecting double portico beneath a front gable.
Old Batesburg Grade School, also known as Batesburg Elementary School, is a historic elementary school building located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1912, and is a two-story, brick Neo-Classical school building with a central tetrastyle portico and flanking pavilions. The central portico has four colossal Tuscan order columns. An auditorium is located at the rear of the building. Wing additions were added about 1945. It was the town's first public school, housing grades 1–11.
Southern Railway Depot, also known as the Batesburg Boy Scout Hut, is a historic train station located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1900 by the Southern Railway, and is a one-story weatherboarded frame building with a bellcast hip roof. It has patterned metal shingle roofing and sawn wooden brackets supporting the deep eaves. It was relocated from its original location to its present site about 1960 and used as a meeting place for local Boy Scouts.
Old Batesburg-Leesville High School, also known as Batesburg-Leesville Middle School, was an historic high school building located in Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story, red brick school building on a raised basement in the Tudor Gothic Revival style. It features a low parapet roof banded in concrete, flanking pavilions, and a Tudor arched entranceway.
Batesburg Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It encompasses 28 contributing buildings in the central business district of Batesburg. It largely consists of brick commercial buildings built between 1895 and 1925, with the majority dating from 1900–1910. Notable buildings include the Old Telephone Company, M. Howard Butcher Shop, Owen Drug Company, Bank of Western Carolina, Old First National Bank, Belk's, and the M. E. Rutland Building.
Church Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It encompasses nine contributing buildings in a residential section of Leesville. They were largely constructed between about 1865 and 1909, with one house built after 1910. The district includes the Gothic Revival style Leesville Methodist Church (1909) and notable Italianate and Queen Anne style residences.
Leesville College Historic District is a national historic district located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It encompasses 28 contributing buildings associated with the Busbee Brothers’ School and the Leesville English and Classical Institute. The district includes institutional and residential buildings in a range of vernacular Victorian architectural styles.
South Carolina Highway 391 (SC 391) is a 34.920-mile-long (56.198 km) state highway in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The highway connects rural areas of Aiken County with Prosperity, via Batesburg-Leesville.
South Carolina Highway 116 (SC 116) was a state highway that existed entirely in the southwestern part of Lexington County. It existed partially within the city limits of Leesville (now part of Batesburg–Leesville.
Fairview Crossroads is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
