Gable is an

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in Clarendon County,

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, United States. The community is located along

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, north-northeast of

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. Gable has a

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with ZIP code 29051, which opened on June 6, 1916.

Education

The community formerly had two all-white public high schools: Gable High School & Black River High School. Gable High School had first opened in the fall of 1934, and dissolved following the end of the 1948–1949 school year when it consolidated with New Zion, South Carolina's Salem High School to create Black River High School. Black River High School had first opened in the fall of 1949, & it dissolved following the end of the 1951–1952 school year when it consolidated with Turbeville High School to create East Clarendon High School. Their school mascot was the

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. Both of these schools had offered baseball, boys' and girls' basketball and football as sports.

References

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