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Orangeburg, also known as "The Garden City," is the principal city and county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The city population was 12,765 at the 2000 census, although the greater Orangeburg area had a population of approximately 45,000. The population declined from the 1950s to the 1990s, but it is starting to see an increase. The city is located southeast of Columbia, on the north fork of the Edisto River.
A civil rights protest was staged at a whites-only bowling alley in Orangeburg on February 8, 1968. In what would become known as the Orangeburg Massacre, officers of the SC Highway Patrol became involved in an altercation with the protesters. The officers fired into the crowd, killing 3 and wounding 27.In May 2000, the city created the Orangeburg County Community of Character initiative, which is a collaborative effort by the Downtown Orangeburg Revitalization
Association (DORA), The Times and Democrat newspaper, the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce, and the Orangeburg County Development Commission.
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Sanford, job agency lock hornsMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - Dec 30, 2008He was one of many hoping to receive their unemployment benefits at the SC Employment Security Commission's Orangeburg office. Harvin wondered if it was a ... | More... More...
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Sanford, job agency lock hornsMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - Dec 30, 2008He was one of many hoping to receive their unemployment benefits at the SC Employment Security Commission's Orangeburg office. Harvin wondered if it was a ... | More... More...
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