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ORANGEBURG

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 151 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
ORANGEBURG , a city and the county-seat of . Orangeburg county,
South
  Carolina, U.S.A., on the North Edisto river, so m. S. by E. of Columbia. Pop. (1890) 2964; (1900) 4455 (2518 negroes); (1910) 5906. Orangeburg is served by the Atlantic
Coast
  Line and the Southern railways. It is the seat of
Claflin
  University for negroes, and of the State Colored Norma], Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Claflin
  University, incorporated in 1869, was named in honour of Lee Claflin (17911871) of Massachusetts, and is under the
control
  of the. Freed-men's Aid and Education Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1908 it had 25 instructors and 538 students (241 men and 297 women). The State Colored Normal, Industrial, Agri-cultural and Mechanical College was established here by the state in 1872 as the College of Agriculture and
Mechanics
 ' Institute (for negroes), on property immediately adjoining the campus of Claflin University, and the two schools were under one management (although otherwise distinct and
separate
 ) until 1896, when the present name of the state college was adopted. Among the city's manufactures are
cotton
 -seed oil,
cotton
  (yarn and cloth), lumber, bricks, concrete and turpentine. The municipality owns the water-works and the electric-lighting plant. A trader and trapper settled on the site of what is now Orangeburg in 1704. In 1735 a company of Germans and Swiss established the first real
settlement
  and named it Orangeburg, in honour of the prince of Orange. Orangeburg was incorporated as a town in 1851, and was first chartered as a city in 1883.


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