Ferguson, South Carolina
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ferguson-south-carolina-322-8899742
title:
Ferguson, South Carolina
text:
Ferguson is a ghost town, a former lumber-mill settlement, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was a company town owned by Northern lumbermen Francis Beidler and Benjamin F. Ferguson, both of Chicago. The co-CEOs founded the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company in 1881 for the purpose of harvesting old-growth timber from blackwater river wetlands in central South Carolina. The firm, which controlled 165,000 acres (67,000 ha) of land, concentrated its efforts on bald cypress timber. Operation
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Ghost town in South Carolina, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson,_South_Carolina
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2023-07-25T05:03:52Z
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