Johnsonville explores the possibility of aquiring South Carolina Great Town recognition. 23 December 1976
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.
Shay Hagan Introduces New Location for Rollins and Hagan, 1-3-1980
William P. "Shay" Hagan announces the new location of the offices of Rollins and Hagan Real Estate and Insurance.
Wellman spent time circa 1956 researching sheep that might be better acclimated to South Carolina's weather. C. H. Mudge acted as herdsman for the project. The sheep pasture was across Highway 41 from the Wellman Texaco Station.
Octavia "Sissy" Stone Carter holds her grandson, Jimmy Hanna. Jimmy is the son of Arles Timmons Hanna and Violet Carter Hanna.
Sonny Carter enjoys the snow at his grandmother Octavia "Sissy" Stone Carter's home. The home was located on Vox Highway at the intersection with Rena Atkinson Road.
South Carolina's All-Star Basketball team, 1952
South Carolina's All-star Basketball team, 1952. Some pictured are: Delance Poston (#11 in back row) - Johnsonville Billy Risen - Bowman Frank Ellerbe - Latta David A Neilson - Aiken Ben Arthur Bridgeman - McColl Chris Theos - Charleston Austin Thompson - Conway Buz Carmichael - Mullins
Spotlight on Values in Hemingway and Johnsonville, 9-8-1977
Spring Cleaning Old Doctor's Office, 3-23-1978
Stonewall Jackson Hughes Family circa 1896
This photograph shows Stonewall Jackson Hughes (seated, black hat) with his wife, children, and parents. Stone Hughes and Sarah Martha Thompson were married on March 22, 1879. Front row seated, L to R: Wallie Jones Hughes, Sarah Martha Thompson Hughes, Jay Hughes, Stonewall Jackson Hughes holding Grace Hughes, Sidney Lenair Hughes, John Wesley Hughes, and Celia Cribb Hughes. Standing L to R: unknown, Virginia Cribb, Martin Altman, unknown A majority of this family is buried at Ebenezer Methodist Church cemetery in Muddy Creek, Williamsburg County.
Jessie Hughes via Johnsonville Public Library media services
Stringing Tobacco - Florence County - 1938
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.
Stephanie Nesmith Forte, James Nesmith (c/o 1968), and Emma Nesmith (c/o 1967)
Students at Old Johnsonville School circa 1904
1st Row: Lillian Cockfield Powell, Myrtle Poston Redfern, Eva Venters Grimball. 2nd Row: Hattie Cribb Newell, Myra Oliver 3rd Row: Eunice Huggins Brown, Zelma Ginn. Professor S. H. Brown stands in the back
Weekly Observer, May 25 1995 Via SC Historical Society vertical file for Florence County
The present business was opened by businessmen Billy King and John Taylor as “The Chick Supreme.” Macky DeCamps owns the building. The business is now run by sisters Carolyn Palumbo, Lavonia Olsen and Dixie Evans.
The Johnsonville Candidates Speak, 1976
The Bargain House was located on Highway 41 near the intersection with Broadway. In the 1960s this building was home to Tri City Distributors, run by Arris Powell and George Todd. It was situated between the Cottage Lunch and Gulf Station (right) and the Red and White grocery store run by Abe Lyerly to the left. To the left of the Red and White was a furniture store run by George Williams and to the left of that was a Barber Shop run by Price Hughes and later by Osborne Cribb and his family. Later a parts place was built and run by a Mr. Baxley
The store was a partnership of Julian David Brown and Huggins Bros. Lumber Co. Julian ran the store. His father, Walter Brown, worked in the store while he was teaching. There were gas pumps (not in use) under the shed in the 1950s.
The Candidates Speak - DeCamps Announces Mayoral Run
Candidates for Johnsonville City Council speak to the Weekly Observer - Connie DeCamps announces a run for mayor. 26 May 1976
The Cottage Lunch and Gulf Station, Georgetown Highway at Broadway Street in Johnsonville
The station was run by Eunice and Herman Lentz and was located at Highway 41 and Possum Fork Road.
The Johnsonville Colored School served black students through 8th grade. It was located on Stuckey Street near the location of the current Johnsonville Middle School's tennis courts. A report stated that in the 1924 school year, 4 teachers were employed.
SC Dept of Archives and History - School Insurance Photos
This photo was taken in front of the Johnsonville Drug Company, circa 1920. The man pictured is Ashby McElveen, a druggist at the pharmacy - the girl is currently unknown. He was from Lake City. Ashby purchased a Drug Store in Sumter, SC in 1923 and remained there the rest of his life. His brother Robbie McElveen worked for the Farmers and Merchant Bank in Johnsonville and married a local girl named Cornelia Cockfield. They moved to Lake City after marrying in the early 1920's. This photo was provided by Ashby's grandson, Wilson McElveen. You can make out some of the old buildings on Broadway in the background.
Steve Dukes stands in front of the homestead of his great-grandparents Thomas and Nekoda Hanna.
View of old Johnsonville Pharmacy after old doctor office torn down, Johnsonville Finance & Insurance Co (Owned by Tom Redmond) and Venters Department Store all located on Broadway Street.
The old safe at the Johnsonville Pharmacy
The old safe was the perfect place for the cash register and charge account book. The old store did not allow for self service due to space constraints. Until the new pharmacy building opened in August 1982, customers would discreetly ask the pharmacist for contraceptives and personal hygiene products due to social norms in most South Carolina small towns. Most items were stocked but hidden discreetly in the prescription area behind the soda fountain mirror.
The prescription filling area in the old Johnsonville Pharmacy
The prescription filling area in the old Johnsonville Pharmacy was hidden behind a large mirror at the soda fountain. Space was a premium and this view shows the filing boxes that each held one thousand prescriptions. There were no commercial computerized systems available and would have been cost prohibited for a small town pharmacy.
The Promised Land - Hand Drawn Map of the Area
Map insertion from the cover of The Promised Land by Elaine Y. Eaddy
The promised land: the James Eaddy family in South Carolina
Thelma Dill Eaddy seeks Trustee Seat, 2-26-1976
Thomas Rothmahler Grier (1817-1883) and Margaret Ann Johnson Grier (1823-1891)
Thomas Rothmahler Grier (1817-1883) and his wife, Margaret Ann Johnson Grier (1823-1891). Thomas was a magistrate and was known as "The Squire." He owned a plantation near Lynches River given by Margaret Johnson's father William J. Johnson, who founded Johnsonville. The Johnson plantation was a part of the original grant to John James. William Johnson, Sr. had bought a part of the grant from the heirs of John James. He also purchased a portion of the land granted to the Witherspoons. It was part of the Witherspoon grant that was given to Margaret Johnson Grier. Margaret was the daughter of Captain William J. Johnson (1787-1851) and Sarah Crosby Johnson (1790-1867). Thomas Grier was the son of James Marion Grier (1780-1827) and Elizabeth W Covan (1800-1873). Elizabeth Covan Grier later married a second time to Thomas Duke. She is buried along side Thomas and Margaret Grier at the Grier Cemetery in Johnsonville. The children of Thomas and Margaret Johnson Grier are: Sarah Grier (1844–1900) m. William Melvin Haselden William James Grier (1848–1917) m. Celia Graves Johnson Julia Ann Grier (1850–1900) m. Franklin Evander Hanna Thomas Mitchell Grier (1854–1877) Judith Crosby Grier (1857–1938) m. Zachary Taylor Eaddy
Thomas Franklin Hanna (1881-1938) and Nekoda Laharp Altman Hanna (1882-1941) owned a large farm bound roughly by the Lake City Highway, Deerfield Road, and the Midway Highway. Their children were: James Franklin "Bubba" Hanna (1900–1984) Arles Timmons Hanna (1902–1986) Webster Olee "Pete" Hanna (1904–1967) Lucille Hanna (Eaddy) (1908–1970)
Homestead built by Thomas Franklin Hanna (1881-1938) & Nekoda Laharp Altman (1882-1941). Thomas was the son of Franklin Evander "Vander" Hanna and Julia Ann Grier. Nekoda was the daughter of Daniel Webster Altman and Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie" Stone. This homestead was on a farm which was part of an original land grant to Hugh Hanna, great grandfather of Thomas Hanna and the first Hanna to settle in the Johnsonville area. The Hannas eventually built a new 2-story home across the field to handle their growing family. Thomas carved his and Nekoda's initials into at least one of the timbers under the house to mark the original home. There was also a family rumor that some of the bricks used as the foundation for the house were used as ballast for ships arriving in America. Thomas and Nekoda's second son, Arles Timmons Hanna and his wife Violet Carter Hanna later occupied the home. Violet was the daughter of Morgan Ham Carter and Octavia Elizabeth Stone from the Vox Community. Arles and Violet married in 1927. Their 3 children, Evander Franklin, Yvonner Leta "Vonnie," and Jimmy Earl each grew up on the farm. Arles and Violet built a new home closer to the Vox Highway around 1950. Violet died in 1984, Arles in 1986. Because the old home was vacant after Arles and Violet moved, Vonnie and Joe Dukes moved in when they were first married in 1954. Even as late as 1956, the house did not have an indoor bathroom and the family had to brave the weather when using the old outhouse on property. They jokingly referred to how easy it was to see chickens walking around under the house because the gaps in the floorboards were so wide before they moved to a newly built home in 1962. The site around the old house was a popular spot for family activities. Vander, Vonnie, and Jimmy's children and grandchildren often camped out and shot fireworks on the property for Thanksgiving and New Year through the 1980s and 1990s. The Old House remained vacant and deteriorated over the years until it was bulldozed and burnt in the early 1990s to make way for a new home on the property.
Thomas Hanna and daughter Lucille Hanna Eaddy
Thomas Franklin Hanna poses with daughter, Lucille Hanna Eaddy. Most likely taken on the Hanna family farm between the Vox and Lake City highways.
Thomas Lynch, Jr, the man who gave his name to Lynches River, which runs through Johnsonville and other towns in the Pee Dee
Thomas Lynch, Jr. (August 5, 1749 – 1779) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina; his father was unable to sign the Declaration of Independence because of illness. He was born at Prince George Parish, Winyah, in what is now Georgetown, South Carolina, the son of Thomas Lynch and his wife, the sister of Isaac Motte. He was schooled at the Indigo Society School in Georgetown before his parents sent him to England, where he studied at Eton College and at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.[1] He studied law at the Middle Temple in London, returning to America in 1772. After his father's death due to a stroke, his widowed mother married South Carolina Governor William Moultrie. Thomas' sister Elizabeth Lynch married James Hamilton; one of their sons was James Hamilton, Jr., who became governor in the state in 1830. Lynch, Jr. became a company commander in the 1st South Carolina regiment in 1775 and was elected to the Continental Congress. He was taken ill at the end of 1779. He and his wife sailed for respite to St. Eustatius in the West Indies. Their ship disappeared at sea in a storm and was never found. No one ever saw him again. Before the voyage, Lynch had made a will, stipulating that heirs of his female relatives must change their surname to Lynch in order to inherit the family estate, a rice plantation. The family estate, Hopsewee, still stands in South Carolina.