Calhoun County is bounded as follows: beginning in Lexington County on the Congaree River at a point where the land line between land now or formerly owned by C. M. Cremaretie and land now or formerly owned by Vandy Spears strikes said river and running the land line between said lands (Said Cremaretie land is in and said Spears land is out of Calhoun County) crossing the State Road on this same land line, continuing straight line 125 chains to a pine on the Pine Plain Road, thence S. 21° 50' W. 16.50 chains to pine on same road; thence S. 10° W. 71 chains to a stake on land now or formerly owned by Nina Davis; thence S. 23° E. on said line (Said Davis land is out of and land now or formerly owned by Geiger is in Calhoun County) crossing the Savanay Hunt Creek (Land now or formerly owned by Crawley is out of Calhoun County) at 45 chains to a pine, total distance 103 chains, then S. 11° W. to a dead pine on Pine Plain Road, distance 3 miles, S. 2° E. with road 20 chains, same line 55 chains to Big Sandy Run near the south of Huckabass Mill, continuing to 1 mile, then S. 36.50° W. 35 chains to a pine near Pine Plain Road, S. 29.50° W. said road line, 23.50 chains, dead pine then S. 33° W. 53 chains to pine and stake on Rast land, then S. 9.50° W. 11 chains pine, S. 1° E. straight line to line of land now or formerly owned by Mrs. R. L. Baker, then with said line to a corner near Camp Ground Road, then a straight line to Orangeburg Road near Porterfield Mill, then a direct line to the head of Branham Branch and with said branch to Beaver Creek, then with the Orangeburg and Lexington line southwest to the corner of Caw Caw and Elizabeth townships and with said line southwest to the Joe Amaker old mill on Lime Stone Creek, then N. 45° E. to Little Lime Stone, then with same creek north to Poplar on Robertson Plantation Road, then S. 7.6° E. to the Kennerly Road, crossing the Kennerly Road one-half mile south of the house now or formerly owned by Moody Godwin, continuing the same line crossing the Columbia Road nine miles north of Orangeburg, continuing to the Southern Railway crossing 8.50 miles northeast of Orangeburg courthouse, continuing from said point on Southern Railway to a point on Four Hole Creek marked and designated by an ash tree X and witnessed by maple and gum trees, said line having the following course: S. 49° E. and being about 47,550 feet, thence with the creek to the land formerly owned by Jacob Riley, and with said land line out to State Road near the property formerly owned by Fred Dantzler, down said road to the land corner of said Fred Dantzler property then said Dantzler land line to point on line of land formerly owned by Haigler then said Haigler's land line, the line to public road, Oak X 3 N. near former residence of David Smith, said road the line to a branch southwest of former residence of T. V. Blair then up said branch 40 chains to a stake X 3 N., then northeast across Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to stake 66 feet from center of track, then up the said right of way N. 57.50° W. 120 chains to stake on the Orangeburg Road 66 feet from center of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad track, Orangeburg Road the line to the Monck's Corner Road, then N. 73° E. passing at the north edge of the old Santee Graveyard, continuing to a stake X 3 N., north of C. W. Shumaker's former residence, then S. 67° E. to a stake by road of Capt. George D. Rast's estate land, then N. 79° 45' E. to an oak on the road near Trinity Graveyard, then N. 69° E. to a stake on Two Chop Road by Neighborhood Road, intersecting on land formerly owned by J. A. Johnson, then south Two Chop Road the line to Little Poplar Creek, distance 37 chains, then down the said creek the line to McCord's Ferry Road, said road the line S. 45° E. 209 chains to Hydrick's old mill on Big Poplar Creek, said creek the line to Santee River, up the Santee River to the Congaree River, up the Congaree River to beginning point.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 14-59; 1952 Code Section 14-59; 1942 Code Section 2984; 1932 Code Section 2984; Civ. C. '22 Section 676; Civ. C. '12 Section 595; 1908 (25) 1279.