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Irmo (/ ˈ ər m oʊ /) is a town in Lexington and Richland counties, South Carolina, United States and a suburb of Columbia. It is part of the Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the city center. The population of Irmo was 11,569 at the 2020 census. [4]
[13] [14] Although labor unions were largely absent, wildcat strikes became increasingly common towards the end of the decade. In 1929, 79,027 workers participated in eighty-one separate strikes across South Carolina. [15] Without union organization, these strikes proved difficult to maintain or coordinate, and most were over quickly.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
South Carolinians may soon have the chance to view a spectacular stellar event that happens once a generation. According to NASA, the T Coronae Borealis, nicknamed the Blaze Star, lies 3,000 light ...
Get the Irmo, SC local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The Irmo Fire Department arrived and put the fire out, containing it to one unit. Irmo police chief Bobby Dale identified the officer who went into the fire as Senior Corporal Christopher Kaderly.
William Augustus Reckling (1850–1913) was a noted SC Photographer operating in Columbia 1870–1910 at times with his 2 sons as "Reckling & Sons Photographers" on Senate St now part of the USC campus. The latter has a collection of Reckling's photos of notable South Carolinians of the era as well as a series of stereographs of Columbia. [11]
Toxic chemicals in SC river traced to Irmo manufacturing plant, lawsuit says. Sammy Fretwell. July 2, 2024 at 4:45 PM.