City Directories and History: R&R has divided the 1939 SCDOT map of Fairfield County into (28) sectional maps. Many of the individually listed schools and churches shown on this section are pictured. However, in many cases, the individual site also has its own post on R&R, which often provides added information and image. Be wise and use the search function to locate all of the entries for this and other homeplace listings. Click on HOME to return to the index page.
Bethlehem (“House of Bread”) 1889, Abbeville County. See Matthew 2:1—“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King ”
Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC
*** Historian, Harvey S. Teal’s S.C. Post Office History, 1989 states: “the Mount Olivet Post Office operated about five years from 1843 0 1848, Elijah GYDEN, Postmaster.”
Click this link to view the original SCDOT maps of Fairfield County: SCDOT MAPS.
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