Monthly Archives: June 2015

Orangeburg History

Midlands Merchants: The Jews of Orangeburg and Vicinity German Jews began settling in Orangeburgh (as it was originally spelled) in the early 1840s, once railroads connected the village of fewer than 400 to Charleston and Columbia. By 1853, the town’s population had more than doubled. Originally established as an Indian trading post called Edisto, the settlement was renamed in honor of […]

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