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History
Allendale County was formed in 1919, along the Savannah River. It is the location of the Topper Site, an archeological excavation providing possible evidence of a pre-Clovis culture. The site is near a source of chert on private land in Martin owned by Clariant Corporation, a Swiss chemical company with a plant there. The site, named after John Topper, a local resident who discovered it, has been under excavation by archeologists from the University of South Carolina for about one month a year since 1999, after an initial exploratory dig in the mid-1980s.
Adjacent Counties
- Burke County, Georgia
- Barnwell County
- Bamberg County
- Colleton County
- Hampton County
- Screven County, Georgia
Towns & Communities
- Allendale (County Seat)
- Appleton
- Fairfax
- Martin
- Sycamore
- Ulmer
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Plantations of Allendale County
National Register of Historic Places
