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Town residents felt left out Edgefielddaily.com web posted August 18, 2005 A column by the Editor We have received a lot of e-mail on the column about the naming of roads in the county. They were all very positive but most were wondering why we did not cover the towns of Edgefield, Johnston, and Trenton. So to be sure we keep all our readers happy we decided to do another column on just the towns. Enjoy! The towns of Edgefield, Johnston, and Trenton have some rather interesting names. In Edgefield you can scurry along Scurry Lane on your way to going nowhere on Circle Street. There is Eastview Road which goes more north than east. Of course Edgefield would be remiss not to have Thurmond St. You could be a ringer if you live on Horseshoe Road or in Grace on Church Street. You can bring home the bacon on Bacon St. They have a Bluebird St, but the real obvious thing about Edgefield is they love trees and named at least fourteen roads for them. There is Sourwood Dr, Persimmon St, Pecan St, Oak Ln, Dogwood Ln, Elm, Hickory, Maple, Olive, Walnut, and Pine Streets as well as Plum Rd and Pine Valley. A reader from Johnston offered his views on their road names. Roger Bush reminded us: In Johnston you have the birds and trees, but if you didn't already know they are across town from each other. So the birds do not live in trees around here, but nothing is perfect. On the northwest side of town you have Chinaberry Cir., Sycamore, Cedar, Cottonwood, and also an Apple. There is even a Dogwood Ln, Pecan, and Oak St. For the birds you have Cardinal, Dove, Wren, and a Partridge. While we are at lets throw a Rabbit Rd in there also. You got Civil War guys like Lee, and Calhoun. You don't even have to go to the beach to go to Edisto St. People like to use their own names as streets like Jackson, Outz, Maffett, Sawyer, Parker, May, Walker, and Andrew. You might be able to stay young by living on Young St, or maybe go parking on Park Ave. You might find some crazy things on Ripley’s (Believe It Or Not) St. We even have Railroad Ave that actually follows the railroad through part of town. Someone must have run out of names when they gave the name of Dirt St. Your hair might change colors if you were to go on Gray St. You can even go to the spring on Rosa Spring Rd. and watch the sun set on Sunset Dr. Edgefield Daily.com feels he pretty well summed up the Johnston area and could not have said it better. In Trenton things are a bit simpler. The bank is on Bank Street, they used to grow cotton on Cotton Street, and the trestle was on Trestle Street. To state the obvious, other names are Tank, Church, and School Street. You might get smarter driving down Wise Street as you learn the history behind the names of Tillman and Thurmond Streets. We would do another column on street names, but we drove down Bland Street in Johnston and lost all interest.
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