Johnsonville South Carolina Area History
A Small Town Southeast Of The Florence Metro Area
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Founded in 1850, the town of Florence thrived with coming of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad. General William W. Harlee built the first rail lines here, and the town (and later the county) was named after his daughter Florence.
  
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Of Johnsonville itself, a man by the name of William J. Johnson succeeded one J.D. Witherspoon at the ferry on a plantation purchased in 1825.
  
Johnson's Ferry, as it became known, was the point where the stage stopped to change horses. As the stagecoach passed east over Lynches River on the ferry, the number of passengers was announced (with one blast for each passenger) from a fox horn. This would advise Mrs. Johnson of the number of places to set at the table for dinner. The passengers ate during the change of horses, and then proceeded to the next stop. The area soon took the name of Johnsonville.
  
In more than 200 years' association with the Johnsonville and later Hemingway area, the Johnson family has given its name to the town plus land on which to build an early church. A number of doctors have also been members of this distinguished family.
 
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