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McCormick County - 250 Anniversary of American Revolution

Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary

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McCormick County - 250 Anniversary of American Revolution

About McCormick:

McCormick County and its county seat, the town of McCormick, were named for Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), industrialist and inventor of the reaper, the predecessor of the combine. The town, originally called Dorn’s Gold Mines or simply Dorn’s Mine, sprang up around the gold mining operation of William Burkhalter Dorn (1799-1876), beginning in early 1852. McCormick purchased Dorn’s mining company in 1871 then pressed for a railroad line through town from Augusta to Greenwood, which was completed in the spring of 1882 around the same time the town was incorporated as McCormick. The county was formed in 1916 from parts of Abbeville, Edgefield, and Greenwood counties.

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