The County Page highlight Continues.... This week the Aiken County, SC Genealogy resource page. Aiken County was created in 1871 from Edgefield, Orangeburg, Barnwell and Lexington Counties. It was named for the president of the South Carolina railroad, William Aiken. The town of Aiken was established as a depot on the South Carolina rail line between Hamburg (on the Savannah River) and Charleston, this would become the county seat. In the 1870s the area became a resort for the well to do from the north. The Savannah River Site was established in Aiken County in 1950 as a nuclear bomb plant.

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You might also be interested in our new Aiken County, SC Genealogy Query Forum.

Aiken County is served by the Aiken-Barnwell Genealogical Society.

Aiken-Barnwell Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 415
Aiken, SC 29802

Aiken County Courthouse Aiken County
828 Richland Avenue, W.
County Courthouse
Aiken, SC 29801

The Aiken County SCGenweb Site may also be useful.

Cities and towns of Aiken County are as follows:

• Aiken (County Seat)
• Bath
• Beech Island
• Belvedere
• Berlin
• Bethcar
• Breeze Hill
• Burnettown
• Clearwater
• Dunbarton
• Gloverville
• Graniteville
• H L Crossroads
• Jackson
• Johnstown
• Kitchings Mill
• Langley
• Mixville
• Monetta
• Montmorenci
• New Ellenton
• New Holland
• North Augusta
• Perry
• Rocky Springs
• Salley
• Savannah River Plant
• Seivern
• Stiefeltown
• Vaucluse
• Wagener
• Warrenville
• Windsor

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