Lake City

In what was then Williamsburg Township, this area was settled as early as 1754 by members of the Dick, Graham, McAllister, Scott, and other families, and several residents served under Francis Marion during the Revolution. By the 1820s the community was sometimes called “the crossroads” because two major roads intersected here, one from Georgetown to Camden and the other from Charleston to Cheraw, now Main and Church Streets. It was also known as “Graham’s Crossroads” for Aaron Graham, who built a house here about 1830. A post office opened here in 1848 under the name “Lynches Lake.” The town grew after the Northeastern RR was completed in 1857, was chartered as Graham in 1874, and was renamed Lake City in 1883. It remained in Williamsburg County until 1912. Its tobacco market, opened in 1899, was among the largest in S.C., and its bean market, opened in 1936, was once the largest in the world.

Lake City, South Carolina · United States