Tag: Manning

Manning is a city in South Carolina and the county seat of Clarendon County in the Southeastern United States, located in the center of the county, just to the east of Interstate 95 and at the intersection of U.S. 301 and U.S. 521. The population was estimated to be 3,943 as of 2008, down 2% from its 4,025 population as of the 2000 census. It was named after South Carolina governor John Laurence Manning.
In 1855 the Legislature appointed a group of commissioners to select and purchase a tract of land for “the Village of Manning” in the newly formed Clarendon County. According to the Watchmen, a local newspaper of the time, “the Legislature (had) granted a bill of divorce between Clarendon and Claremont (Sumter).” Ignoring superstition, thirteen men were named as commissioners to select and acquire from six to sixty acres on which to lay out the new courthouse village: R. C. Baker, L. F. Rhame, J. C. Brock, W. W. Owens, Joseph Sprott, J. C. Burgess, M. T. Brogdon, J. J. Nelson, Samuel…