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Downtown Manning, S.C.

Downtown Manning, S.C., during the holidays.
Downtown Manning, S.C., during the holidays.

Downtown Manning, S.C., is filled with Christmas cheer in this picture taken earlier this month.

Manning, which has a population of about 4,000 people, is the county seat for Clarendon County, a Southern Crescent county with 34,357 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2012 population estimate.  About half of the county’s residence are white; the other half are black.  Some other statistics:

  • High school graduation rate of those 25 or older:  76.3 percent.
  • Bachelor’s degree graduates:  13.8 percent
  • Median household income:  $33,267
  • Poverty rate:  22.8 percent
  • Unemployment rate, November 2013: 9.9 percent (2.5 percent higher than the state average)
  • Black-owned firms:  30.1 percent (18 points higher than state average)
  • Women-owned firms:  35.4 percent (8 points higher than state average)

Copyrighted photo by Andy Brack, Dec. 5, 2013.  All rights reserved.

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Bushy roof, Clarendon County, S.C.

Bushy roof, Clarendon County, S.C.
Bushy roof, Clarendon County, S.C.

Retired editor Linda W. Brown of Kingstree, S.C., snapped a photo of this old tobacco barn with a bushy roof along S.C. Highway 261 just outside Manning in Clarendon County.  “It doesn’t show in the picture,” she writes, “but there is a fairly new fiberglass basketball goal right in front of the old tobacco barn.  Changing times, changing lives.”

Clarendon County, split in half by Interstate 95, had almost 21 percent of residents living in poverty, according to the 2010 Census.

Photo taken Oct. 20, 2013 by Linda W. Brown.  All rights reserved.