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EDGEFIELD COUNTY’S ECONOMY
There are plenty of after-school activities for children living in Edgefield County. The Edgefield County Recreation Department offers a full schedule of youth activities, including softball, baseball, football, and soccer. Edgefield County offers many dining experiences from a casual lunch at Chef Bob’s Café, Park Row Market No. 1, Edgefield Billiard Parlor, Riley’s On Main, 3rd Generation Catering & Family Restaurant, The Chicken Place, Choices or The Triangle Restaurant, to fast food dining at McDonald’s, Burger King and Pizza Hut, to a cultural experience at Fiesta Mexican Restaurant, EL Guerrero II or several of the Chinese restaurants in the area. For a fine dining experience, visit the Old Edgefield Grill situated on the edge of the Edgefield town square in an historic Victorian home. The restaurant offers tributes to United States Senator Strom Thurmond, and the National Wild Turkey Federation. Dining at the Old Edgefield Grill will cap off any visit to this fascinating community. Nonna’s Italian Kitchen, located on Main Street just prior to the square, is Edgefield’s premier family-friendly Italian dining experience. For a less strenuous, but equally worthwhile leisure pursuit, two of the three towns host festivals during the year. Both Trenton and Johnston celebrate the peach each spring and summer with festivals that offer activities for the entire family, including arts and crafts, plenty of food, parades and entertainment. The Johnston Peach Blossom Festival is the first Saturday in May, and sponsored by the Johnston Development Corporation. Trenton’s Ridge Peach Festival, held the third Saturday in June, and is the longest-celebrated festival in the county; with the year 2020 marking its 50th anniversary. Edgefield County is an area steeped in history, but it also is looking to the future. With its scenic countryside, lifestyle amenities and convenient-location, it is quickly becoming one of the fastest-growing counties in the region.
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Economy EDGEFIELD COUNTY’S
Quality of Life can be measured by many factors. Income, education, art, availability of goods and services, convenience, climate and innovative business and industry all contribute to the quality of life for a region’s inhabitants.
Edgefield County offers residents the charm and simplicity of smalltown life with big-city amenities like shopping, cultural arts, state-ofthe art healthcare and many outdoor activities. In addition, with an annual average temperature of 64 degrees, there is a beautiful climate in which to enjoy it all.
A moderate, four-season climate invites people outdoors. Pristine waterways provide a boating and fishing paradise. Championship level golf and tennis abound. Horseback riding, jogging and walking trails, a canoe trek down the Edisto River, the second longest black water river in the world, are just a few of the relaxing and reaffirming activities not to be missed.
Visual and performing arts also thrive here. The Edgefield County Historical Society, the Edgefield County Theatre Group and the Town of Edgefield offer several opportunities for visual and performing arts with community plays, concerts, and movies on the square. Outside Edgefield County you have performing arts: The Saluda Theatre, McCormick Arts Council @ the Keturah (MACK), The Aiken Community Playhouse, Aiken Center for the Arts, Washington Center for the Performing Arts, University of South Carolina – Aiken’s Etherredge Center and the new USC-A Convocation Center.
When you feel good about where you live, where you work, where your children go to school, and when you’re proud of all your community has to offer, that’s a high quality of life. When you’ve found all of that, you’ve found Edgefield County and its surrounding areas.
Population: Edgefield County and Aiken County are part of the Aiken-Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). With a population of more than 882,504 (2017) and a workforce of more than 405,166, population growth has been healthy. Edgefield County’s population is more than 27,396 (2017).
Nearby cities of Augusta, GA and Columbia, SC, offer additional and varied residential, shopping, and entertainment opportunities to Edgefield and Aiken area employees.
The Savannah River Site, the area’s largest employer, has been responsible for bringing thousands of highly skilled and educated employees and their families to the area.
Industry:
Cost-efficient productivity and leading technology are the only ways to manufacture world-class products. Edgefield and Aiken counties’ total manufacturing facilities recently generated more than $4.1 billion in sales with just under 20,000 employees.
From specialty chemicals to specialty metal working, from aerospace and national defense to technical elements of beneficial heat transfer, the manufacturers in Edgefield and Aiken Counties have come to rely on the geographic location, access to transportation, open and enthusiastic governments, R & D and high quality workforce training to grow their companies.
World-class products can only compete on a global footing if there is advanced technology and a highly trained, first class workforce. Edgefield & Aiken counties are delivering exactly what the manufacturing sector demands. And the world is standing up and taking notice.
Most plant managers in the region cite the concentrated transportation grid that serves Edgefield and Aiken counties’ as a major reason for locating here. Highways, rail lines and air service all converge on the area. Two-thirds of the U.S. population is within a one-day drive of the area.
Midway along the 250-mile South Carolina/Georgia border, our community is blessed with excellent transportation access to the Interstate highway system via I-20, which connects the Aiken-Augusta MSA to Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, and Dallas, Texas. In addition, I-20 provides easy access to other nearby Interstates. I-26 and I-77 are less than an hour drive, which offer connection to Charlotte, NC, Charleston, SC and Greenville-Spartanburg, SC. The Palmetto Parkway, I-520 will improve the connection between US 1 and I-20, is designed to alleviate current traffic congestion as well as accommodate growth into the future. To the west I-20 connects with I-85 and I-75 at Atlanta, which opens up the entire Midwest to commerce. I-95, the most important transportation artery on the Atlantic Coast, is within a 90-minute drive.
The major rail lines of CSX Transportation and Norfolk-Southern bisect the area, and a four-mile county-owned spur connects rail service directly to Aiken County’s Sage Mill Industrial Park.
Augusta Regional Airport in Augusta, GA (40 minutes for Edgefield County) and the Columbia Metropolitan Airport (50 minutes) provide three airlines to serve the area. The Aiken Municipal Airport supports corporate jet service. The major ports of Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA are each only a 2.5-hour drive away.
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Utilities: Two utility companies – Aiken Electric Cooperative and Dominion Energy – South Carolina – serve our communities on selected sites. Both can serve customers with dual feed from two separate generation sources. There are also a number of solar farms in our area for utility companies to draw from.
Edgefield and Aiken counties have abundant water supplies drawn from pristine stream systems, the Savannah River and deep-water wells that tap a vast aquifer and require very little treatment. The area has one of the premier wastewater treatment facilities in the Southeast. Horse Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility serves a three-county region with a permitted capacity of 20 million gallons. Horse Creek has an expansion capacity of 40 million gallons per day, giving it plenty of room to grow with the community and serve future industrial growth well into the new century.
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Communication: Telephone (land lines and/or cellular) providers are AT&T, Northland Communications, Comcast, Alltel, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Atlantic Broadband, Comporium, Western Carolina Tel and T-Mobile.
Cable TV services are available in the more populated portions of Edgefield County. Service providers include Northland Communications and Comcast.
The major television networks have stations in Augusta, GA and Columbia, SC, which can be received in Edgefield County. Edgefield County has a local radio station, WKSX-FM, 92.7 - Classic Hits and Beach Music located in Johnston.
The Edgefield Advertiser (Oldest Newspaper in South Carolina) is published weekly in Edgefield County. Daily newspapers from Augusta, Aiken, Greenwood and Columbia are delivered in Edgefield County. Major Employers: Milliken & Company, TranTech Radiator Products, Beacon Filtration, Southern Felt, RestMaster Bedding, Trenton Plastics, U. S. Fibers, Force Protection, National Wild Turkey Federation and Bondex, Inc.
Major industries in or close to our area include: Bridgestone PSR Plant & ORR Plant, MTU America, Inc., Carolina Cover Tech, Costa Farms, Menardi-Filtrex, Amick Farms, Department of Energy, Savannah River Site, UPS Customhouse Brokerage, and Valley Protein.
edgefield county water & sewer authority Federal Correction Institute – Bureau of Prisons / Edgefield County School District / National Headquarters include the National Wild Turkey Federation.
