Johnsonville South Carolina History

  Johnsonville's old middle school on Midway Highway was originally The Stuckey School, an "Equalization School" during segregation.  The building was constructed in 1954 on a 10-acre tract of land two miles west of Johnsonville.  Prior to this time, black students attended school through 8th grade at the "Johnsonville Colored School," a Rosenwald School building constructed in 1924 and located where the Johnsonville City Pool was later built.  In its first year, this school employed 4 teachers. This school served Johnsonville's black students before the Rosenwald School Fund built the more modern Johnsonville Colored School in 1924 Everlina Jacobs  recalls her time at the Johnsonville Colored school before the Stuckey School was completed: "Where the swimming pool used to be, the school house I went to was there. It was a big old school house. It was 4, 5 rooms. We had to walk from up here - that's when I was young - we walked from over there at th

This information and much more are available at the Johnsonville South Carolina History website . Before bridges and railroads were commonplace in the Pee Dee, many roads led to a ferry. One strategic ferry in the northeastern area of Williamsburg County was Witherspoon’s Ferry. Francis Marion and the American Revolution General Marion, Painted by Stolle - 1884 Late in the summer of 1780, Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates led a Continental army toward South Carolina to attempt to roll back the British conquest of the province. As Gates prepared to meet the British at Camden, he sent Col. Francis Marion - a Continental officer who had only escaped the fall of Charleston because of a broken ankle - south towards the Santee River to gather the local militia forces and prevent a British retreat. On August 17, 1780, leading a ragtag band of fewer than twenty men, “some white, some black, and all mounted, but most of them miserably equipped,” Col. Marion entered the camp of the Williamsburg Militia at

The following is gathered history and research completed by Vanik & Bernadine Eaddy and used with permission:  Land plat for James Eddy II for 600 acres on Lynches Creek, Georgetown District, 1791 The record of James (Eddy) Eaddy was first established in South Carolina about 1753 when he petitioned for a grant of land. This petition is found in Council Journal No. 21, pt. 1, pp. 148-149. "Read the petition of James Edie Humbly setting forth that the petitioner is desirous of settling on the waters of Lynches Creek and having a wife and two children for whom not yet for himself has any land been assigned him, and therefore he humbly prays his Excellency and their honors to order the surveyor general to run out to the petitioner 200 acres of land on the waters of Lynches Creek as aforesaid and that he may have a grant for the same and the petitioner as is duty bound shall ever pray." "Char town the 2d day of Janu. 1753. James Edie. The Petition being considered and th