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Fairfax is a town in Allendale and Hampton counties, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,025 at the 2010 census , [ 5 ] a decline of over one-third of its population of 3,206 from 2000 .
Marshall Burns Williams (January 17, 1912 – December 28, 1995) was an American politician who served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives and the South Carolina Senate. Early life and education
According to the newspaper's Web site, it has 440 full-time employees and another 31 who work part-time, not including an on-premises "McClatchy Customer Care Center for subscriber assistance." The State has a 260,000-square-foot (24,000 m 2) building completed in 1988, three miles (4.8 km) south of downtown. [7]
The Darlington News was established in 1875 [2] as a weekly, publishing on Thursdays. [3] In 1908 it was consolidated with the Darlington Press, under the new name News and Press. [ 4 ]
The first was the South Carolina Leader, established at Charleston in 1865. [2] In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the growth of the African American press in South Carolina was hampered by the fact that a large proportion of South Carolina African Americans lived in poverty in the countryside. [1]
The Orangeburg News, for instance, was organized as a newspaper of the Democrats but later became a newspaper of the Republicans. Into this milieu came James L. Sims. The Charleston, South Carolina, native learned the printing trade at The Charleston Courier and subsequently purchased an interest in The Spartanburg Herald. When his wife died ...
The Charleston Courier was founded in 1803. The founder of the Courier, Aaron Smith Willington, came from Massachusetts with newspaper experience. In the early 19th century, he was known to row out to meet ships from London, Liverpool, Havre, and New York City to get the news earlier than other Charleston papers.
Allendale County was formed in 1919 from southwestern portions of Barnwell County, along the Savannah River, and part of Hampton County, just to its south.It is the location of the Topper Site, an archeological excavation providing possible evidence of a pre-Clovis culture dating back 50,000 years.