Bordeaux, South Carolina

Bordeaux is an unincorporated community in McCormick County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina.[1]

History

The first permanent settlement at Bordeaux was made in 1764.[1] The community was originally built up by French Huguenot settlers, who named it after their native home in Bordeaux, France.[2] Variant names are "French Town" and "New Bordeaux".[1] A post office called Bordeaux was established in 1837, and remained in operation until 1942.[3]

gollark: That's easy though.
gollark: Similar random stuff which I mostly forgot: a thing which read the temperature and spun a thing to point at points on a dial is the only one I remember.
gollark: For some reason our teacher hailed it as the best thing ever or something...
gollark: My pair decided to make a device which would:* display text sent over serial* make a nice beepy noise when a thing was sentand write a program on a Pi connected to it which would download an RSS feed and send the latest feed item constantly.
gollark: For some stupid reason we were meant to make some random useless project with a box of stuff (motor, LCD, LEDs, a few sensors).

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bordeaux
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1941). Palmetto Place Names. Sloane Printing Co. p. 28.
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 29 August 2019.



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