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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anderson County, South Carolina.
Overview
Anderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Named for Revolutionary War leader Robert Anderson, the county is located in northwestern South Carolina, along the Georgia border.
Anderson County contains 55,950-acre Lake Hartwell, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake with nearly 1,000 miles of shoreline for residential and recreational use. The area is a growing industrial, commercial and tourist center. It is the home of Anderson University, a private, selective comprehensive university of approximately 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
National Register of Historic Places
Anderson County Genealogical Society