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Edgefield Controversy Over Water Row Divides Town
A decades long conflict pits Edgefield County Advertiser editor Walton Mims against local leaders over a proposed Edgefield water and sewer project. Federal money and routing along U.S. 25 sparked lawsuits, hearings, and boycotts, with court rulings shaping the saga and a rival paper appearing in 1972.
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Edgefield
South Carolina
Strom Thurmond
Pitchfork Ben
Tillman
U. S. Senate
Billy Ball
Charleston News and Courier
Edge
Wild Turkey Federation
Savannah River Beagle Club
U.S. 25
Edgefield Advertiser
Buncombe Street
Edgefield Couunty
Water and Sewer Authority
North Augusta
Edgefield County Advertiser
Mims
Edgefield County
Savannah River
Trenton
Johnston
Clark Hill
Robert Hemphill
Water and Sewer District
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Corps of Engineers
Edggfield
Butler Derrick
W. W
Aiken County
Edegfield County
Aiken
Sen. Thurmond
Ritzy
Upper Edgefield
Hemphill
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Belvedere
W. M. Gregory
Edgefield County News
Amelia Reece
Reece