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)
Cemeteries
Links
Ace Basin National Wildlife Refuge (part)
National Register of Historic Places
Genealogy Bank - Obits (2009-2022)