City Directories and History: “Jamison’s Turnout (as late as 1896),62 Jamison’s, or Jamison (at present), is the name for a siding on the Southern about six miles from Orangeburg. It is now a little community on U. S. 601. It is about two or three miles from the White Hill plantation of Dr. Jamison. The railroad was completed beyond Jamison (to St. Matthews) by October, 1841. It is
not unlikely, however, that the name could have been chosen to honor the doctor’s son, General David Flavel Jamison. The General represented Orangeburg District in the State legislature from 1836 until 1848. He was chairman of the House Military Committee for a number of years. By that time Dr. Jamison had been dead for five years. It seems quite likely that the name could have been chosen to perpetuate the memory of the doctor. While serving in this capacity he introduced the bill to establish the State Military Schools at the Arsenal (Columbia) and at the Citadel (Charleston).
Dr. Jamison also had a son named Captain Van De Vastine Samuel Jamison. It is really an open question as to whether the General had achieved sufficient prominence to be honored by the naming of the turnout or whether the memory of the doctor was still alive enough after five years that he be so remembered. It is possible that the naming was intended to honor both men or the whole family. His importance is unknown. Perhaps he was still in partial possession of the doctor’s lands when the railroad was built (note the bills of sale concerning White Hill). He may have owned the land that the railroad came through.”
Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC
See an enlarged map of the railroad route in 1854, below.
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