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Place Name
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Beaufort
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Capital Of
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Beaufort County
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Population
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9,576 (1990)
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Location
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Beaufort County, South Carolina (SC), United States, North America
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Latitude
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32°25'N
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Longitude
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80°41'W
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Beaufort
, city (1990 pop. 9,576),  Beaufort co., S S.C.,
50 mi/80 km SW of Charleston, on Port Royal
Isl., one of Sea Isls.; 32°25'N 80°41'W. Located on the
Intracoastal Waterway with a bridge crossing to St. Helena Isl.
Year-round resort and tourist center; canning, processing, and shipping
point for truck, shrimping, oystering, and lumbering area, with good
harbor. Mfg. includes consumer goods, plastic prods., apparel,
machinery, fabricated metal prods. Is the 2d-oldest town in S.C.;
founded 1711. Held by Union forces from Nov. 1861, to end of Civil War.
Has many fine old bldgs., including Episcopal church (built 1724;
remodeled), natl. cemetery, arsenal (1795).
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