Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hampton County, South Carolina.

Official Website

The county is named for Wade Hampton III, one of the country's leading slaveowners and a Lieutenant General for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. After the war, a leading proponent of the rose-tinted Lost Cause of the Confederacy interpretation of the war, he led the Redeemers and Red Shirts on a terrorist campaign to reestablish white apartheid rule in South Carolina. At the end of the Reconstruction era he became Governor and then U.S. Senator from South Carolina.

Adjacent Counties

• Bamberg County
• Allendale County
• Colleton County
• Beaufort County
• Jasper County
• Effingham County, Georgia
• Screven County, Georgia

Towns & Communities

• Brunson
• Crocketville
• Estill
• Fairfax (part)
• Furman
• Gifford
• Hampton (County Seat)
• Lena
• Luray
• McPhersonville
• Nixville
• Scotia
• Varnville
• Yemassee (part)

Links

Wikipedia

Ace Basin National Wildlife Refuge (part)

National Register of Historic Places

Hampton County Plantations

Genealogy Trails

RAOGK

Forebears.io

SC Genealogy - Hampton County

USGW Archives

Roots & Recall

Genealogy Bank - Obits (2009-2022)