Beaufort (South Carolina)

Beaufort County

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Beaufort is a city in the state of South Carolina in the United States and the county seat of Beaufort County. The city was founded in 1711 and is considered to Charleston as the second oldest city in South Carolina.

Geography

The city is located on Port Royal Iceland, an island in the Port Royal Sound on the Atlantic coast of South Carolina.

Demography

At the time of the census in 2000 ( U.S. Census 2000), the city had 12,950 inhabitants on a land area of 48.2 km ². The median age was 30.1 years ( national U.S. average: 35.3 years ). The per capita income ( per capita income englisch ) amounted to (national average of the United States: 21,587 U.S. dollars) at 20,501 U.S. dollars. 13.0 % of residents were with their income below the poverty line ( national U.S. average: 12.4 %). Approximately 13 % of the inhabitants are of German descent.

National Register of Historic Places

Others

Beaufort is known a popular holiday venue for numerous films and for an impressive harbor on the Sound. In the village is the military training facility Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Iceland of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Personalities

Born in Beaufort

  • Danni Ashe, Adult Actress
  • Robert Barnwell, Congressman
  • Robert Woodward Barnwell, Congressman
  • Edward Junius Black, Congressman
  • Kevin Brooks, Basketball Player
  • Richard W. Colcock, President of the Citadel
  • William F. Colcock, Congressman
  • Esther Dale, Actress
  • Mary S. B. Dana, writer
  • Charles H. DuPont, politician and judge
  • Middleton Stuart Elliott, a military doctor
  • Stephen Elliott, Bishop
  • William Elliot, Congressman
  • William Elliot, writer
  • John Floyd, Congressman
  • Joe Frazier, boxer
  • William J. Grayson, congressman, poet
  • Boyce Green, football player
  • John Edwards Holbrook, zoologist
  • Jazzy Jay, hip- hop disc jockey
  • Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas
  • Joe Montford, football player
  • Michael P. O'Connor, Congressman
  • Maude Odell, Actress
  • Clementa C. Pinckney, Senator
  • William Hayes Pope, lawyer and judge
  • Anne Pressly, journalist
  • James Saxon, football player and coach
  • Robert Rhett, Congressman
  • Robert Smalls, Congressman
  • M. Emmet Walsh, Bishop

In solidarity with Beaufort

  • Samuel Hopkins Adams, writer, died in Beaufort
  • Tom Berenger, actor, lives in Beaufort
  • Abigail Mandana Holmes Christensen, collector, lived in Beaufort
  • Donald Conroy, military, died in Beaufort
  • Pat Conroy, writer, lives on Fripp Iceland, the city is a scene in several of his works
  • Charles Craven, governor and founder of the city
  • Richard Howell Gleaves, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, lived in Beaufort
  • Greg Jones, football player
  • Leon Keyserling, an economist
  • David Nolan, writer
  • Michelle Obama, wife of the U.S. president, maternal roots in the Gullah culture of the city
  • Anita Pollitzer, Photographer
  • Martha Sleeper, actress, died in Beaufort
  • Chuck Taliano, naval officer, lived in Beaufort
  • William Verity, Jr., minister, died in Beaufort
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