Eastover is a town in Richland County,

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, United States. The population was 813 at the 2010 census, down from 830 in 2000. It is part of the

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, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

The

J.A. Byrd Mercantile Store J.A. Byrd Mercantile Store, also known as Nelson-Frazier Furniture, is a historic commercial building located at Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1910, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick building. The front façade ...

, Farmers and Merchants Bank Building,

Good Hope Baptist Church Good Hope Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1857, and is a two-story, rectangular frame building. It has a front gable roof and a full height Greek Rev ...

, Goodwill Plantation, Kensington Plantation House,

St. Phillip School St. Phillip School is a historic school building for African American students located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built in 1938, and is a one-story, three room school. The building is clad in shiplap weatherboard and ...

, Saint Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church,

Claudius Scott Cottage Claudius Scott Cottage is a historic home located near Eastover, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a one-story, frame Greek Revival residence. The front façade features a small pedimented porch with four wooden p ...

, and Siloam School are listed on the

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Geography

Eastover is located at (33.877553, -80.694592). According to the

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, the town has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 614 people, 271 households, and 153 families residing in the town.

2000 census

At the 2000

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, there were 830 people, 307 households and 228 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 357 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 92.26%

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, 6.87%

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, 0.41% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.48% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 0.24% of the population. There were 307 households, of which 39.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.4% were

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living together, 43.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.7% were non-families. 23.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.07. 32.4% of the population were under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 67.0 males. The

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was $20,114 and the median family income was $19,844. Males had a median income of $23,250 versus $17,875 for females. The

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for the town was $9,304. About 36.9% of families and 37.3% of the population were below the

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, including 53.1% of those under age 18 and 30.0% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Richland County School District One Richland County School District One (abbreviated RCSD One or "Richland One"), is a school district with its headquarters in the Stevenson Administration Building in Columbia, South Carolina. RCSD One is South Carolina's fifth-largest school dis ...

operates area public schools. Webber Elementary School is in Eastover. Eastover is zoned to Webber Elementary, Southeast Middle School, and

Lower Richland High School Lower Richland High School is a senior high school in unincorporated area, unincorporated Richland County, South Carolina, north of, but not inside Hopkins, South Carolina. It is a part of Richland County School District One. It is an Internatio ...

Points of interest

Eastover is the site of

McEntire Joint National Guard Base McEntire Joint National Guard Base or McEntire JNGB is a military airport located in Richland County, South Carolina, Richland County, South Carolina, United States, 10 miles (16 km) west of the town of Eastover, South Carolina, Eastover ...

and the headquarters for the

South Carolina Air National Guard The South Carolina Air National Guard (SC ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of South Carolina, United States of America. It is a reserve of the United States Air Force and along with the South Carolina Army National Guard an element of t ...

. South Carolina Electric & Gas Company's Wateree Station 700 megawatt coal power plant is located here. South Carolina's only

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, the

Congaree National Park Congaree National Park is a national park of the United States in central South Carolina, 18 miles southeast of the state capital, Columbia. The park preserves the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United Sta ...

, is twelve miles southwest of Eastover. Eastover is the closest municipality to the park.

Notable people

Lewis C. Dowdy Lewis Carnegie Dowdy (1 September 1917 – 17 December 2000) was an American educator and the sixth president, and first chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Early life Lewis C. Dowdy was one of 14 children bo ...

Sarah Mae Flemming Sarah Mae Flemming Brown (June 28, 1933 – June 16, 1993) was an African-American woman who was expelled from a bus in Columbia, South Carolina, seventeen months before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955. Flemmin ...

* Annie B. Martin * Jacob Stroyer

Politics and government

Eastover is in

South Carolina's 6th congressional district South Carolina's 6th congressional district is in central and eastern South Carolina. It includes all of Allendale, Bamberg, Calhoun, Clarendon, Hampton, and Williamsburg counties and parts of Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Florence, ...

. Eastover has a Mayor Council form of government. The current mayor is James Faber. Other members of Council: Leroy Faber, Mayor Pro Tem; Heyward Patterson, Latesha Campbell and Dedrick Edwards. Melissa Cowan is Town Clerk.

References

External links

* The official website o
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