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Abbeville, South Carolina
Abbeville, South Carolina

Abbeville

county, South Carolina, United States
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Abbeville, county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S. It lies in a hilly piedmont region bounded to the southwest by the state’s Richard B. Russell Lake border with Georgia; the Saluda River forms the county’s northeastern border. Calhoun Falls State Park is on the lake, which is formed by the Richard B. Russell Dam on the Savannah River. A large part of this hilly rural area lies in oak-hickory-pine woodland, and much of its southeastern section is...

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