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unusual facts about Sumter


Sumter-class attack transport

All four ships were struck from the Naval Register shortly after the war in March/April 1946, and all four went on to have successful careers as commercial cargo vessels.


Brick Presbyterian Church

Salem Black River Presbyterian Church, Sumter, South Carolina, also known as Brick Church

Chauga River

The Chauga River's source is the confluence of Village Creek and East Village Creek about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Mountain Rest, South Carolina, in the Andrew Pickens Ranger District of the Sumter National Forest.

Corinne Boyd Riley

Riley was associated with the Civilian Personnel Office at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina during World War Two, from 1942 to 1944.

Edwin Maffitt Anderson

Edwin Maffitt Anderson (died January 28, 1923) was a Confederate naval officer, serving on board the shipping raiders CSS Alabama and CSS Sumter as well as the master of the blockade runner CSS Owl.

Orlando International Airport

The community of The Villages in Sumter, Lake, and Marion has shuttles operating between the community and Orlando International Airport.

Rufus C. Somerby

The transformation was remarkably simple: "Our figures of Russian soldiers did not need much paint to turn them into Secessionists"; Lord Raglan was remade as Major Anderson, and a model of Fort Sumter was slipped over an extra patch of the Black Sea.

Sea Research Society

The Society has conducted numerous expeditions over the years including expeditions relating to the wrecks of the CSS David, SS Georgiana, SW Mary Bowers, SW Constance, USS Housatonic, the Confederate submarine Hunley, SS Norseman, CSS Sumter and others.

Shavonda E. Sumter

Sumter and her running mate, Benjie E. Wimberly, defeated the Republican candidates, William Connolly and Donna Puglisi.

Sucarnoochee

Sucarnoochee River, a river in Kemper County, Mississippi and Sumter County, Alabama

Sumpter, Wisconsin

At the start of the Civil War, the name was changed to "Sumter," in honor of Fort Sumter, but an error in spelling resulted in the current name.

Thomas De Lage Sumter

His parents were Thomas Sumter Jr., Ambassador to Brazil, and Natalie De Lage de Volude, adoptive daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr.

WRJA

WRJA-FM, a radio station (88.1 FM) licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, United States


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