The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1811, a post office was established on what is now S.C. Highway 290. A tiny settlement formed around it, and both the post office and community were named New Hope. In 1854, the town changed its name to Vernonville or Vernonsville in honor of local physician J.J. Vernon.
In the mid-1850s, plans were under way to put a railroad line through Duncan, but the impending Civil War disrupted them. It was not until 1873 that the Atlanta and Richmond Railroad laid a line through the town.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Duncan’s history is told.
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Duncan, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Duncan is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Duncan has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler Groce House in Lyman, 1.9 miles away.
Duncan and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.