Happyville, South Carolina
Happyville, South Carolina was a short-lived rural Jewish agricultural settlement of 2,300 acres located in Aiken County, South Carolina, between the communities of Aiken, South Carolina, Aiken and Montmorenci, South Carolina, Montmorenci. The colony was founded by Yiddish-speaking Russian-Jewish socialists who wanted an escape from the sweatshops of New York City. History Between 1890 and the 1920s, many American Jews, Jewish immigrants settled in or near Aiken. The immigrants were Eastern European Jewry, Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews, mostly from History of the Jews in Russia, Russia and History of the Jews in Poland, Poland. In 1905, a group of Russian-Jewish Jewish left, socialists from Judaism in New York, New York founded a farming colony in Aiken County that they called "Happyville". The residents of the colony grew watermelon, cotton, corn, and grapes. Community members would fish for catfish, Esox, pike, Centrarchidae, sunfish, Smelt (fish), smelt, and hold Fish fry, f ...
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