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Election results. Privacy policy About Ballotpedia Disclaimers Login. Kershaw County, South Carolina. Click here to sign up for Ballotpedia's weekly newsletter. CSX Transportation provides rail service within Kershaw County as well as operates and maintains nearly 1, miles of track in South Carolina.
The Kershaw County Airport at Woodward Field is perfect for companies to utilize for their corporate jets. For international needs, The Charlotte Douglas International Airport is frequently used by Kershaw County's residents and existing industries to fulfill their travel needs.
Kershaw County derives its name from Joseph Kershaw, one of the first community leaders of Camden. English and French settlers moved to this area from Charleston and joined Scotch and Irish groups who migrated from the Northeastern United States.
The old Revolutionary War era grave markers at Quaker Cemetery testify to the cultural diversity of the early Camden years. Soon after the capture of Charleston in , Camden was occupied by the British.
General Lord Cornwallis established his living quarters in the finest house in Camden-that of Joseph Kershaw. That original structure has been re-created from early documents and is a vital part of Historic Camden-a Revolutionary War park affiliated with the National Park Service. Two Revolutionary War battles took place near Camden. This series consists of recorded copies of plats for state land grants for the Charleston and the Columbia Series with their certificates of admeasurement or certification.
All personal names and geographic features on these plats are included in the repository's On-line Index to Plats for State Land Grants. The South Carolina Constitution of required the surveyor general to maintain offices in both the new capital at Columbia and in Charleston.
The surveyor general began to use separate volumes for recording plats in his Columbia office in Before that, all plats were recorded in the set of volumes begun in Charleston in After , most plats for land grants in the Upper Division of the state were recorded and filed in Columbia.
The surveyor general chose to make the Columbia volumes a continuation of the state plat volumes begun in Charleston and gave the initial Columbia volume the number thirty-six to correspond with the number of the volume that had then been reached in the Charleston series.
As a result, there are volumes numbered thirty-six through forty-three from each office, but the records in them are not duplicative. Early migration routes to and from Kershaw County for European settlers included: [8]. Civil War service men from Kershaw County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company within a regiment that originated in their county. Listed below are companies and regiments that were specifically formed of men from Kershaw County:.
Camden Archives and Museum Obituary Index. For publication details, including dates of publication, frequency, preceding and succeeding titles, and to find out which libraries have holdings, click on the newspaper title. Tap into the minds of local experts. Editors of genealogical periodicals publish unique sources that researchers new to their area may not encounter.
Periodicals at various levels county, region, and state may carry articles useful to research in this area. For this county, see:. These may include, wills, bonds, petitions, accounts, inventories, administrations, orders, decrees, and distributions. For further information see probate records in South Carolina.
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has microfilms or typescripts of wills, inventories, bills of sale, power of attorneys, bonds, notes, administrations, judgments, and sales records. They have placed Will Transcriptions for to online.
Index searchable by name and the image is available. A general index to estates and probate records of Kershaw County, South Carolina, exists that covers the time period to It includes the name of the estate [the decedent], the name of the executor, administrator or guardian, the numbers for each apartment and package, and a remarks column that often includes dates.
FHL Film Tax-related records are kept by the offices of the county Assessor, Auditor, Sheriff, and Treasurer. Taxes were levied on real and personal property and can help establish ages, residences, relationships, and the year an individual died or left the area.
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