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Sumter

South Carolina, United States
Also known as: Sumterville
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Sumter, city, seat (1798) of Sumter county, east-central South Carolina, U.S. Settled in 1785, it was named Sumterville (shortened in 1856) in honour of the American Revolutionary War general Thomas Sumter. In an agricultural area and once a typical cotton plantation village, Sumter is now primarily an industrial centre, but cotton and tobacco are still important cash crops. Industrial activities include food processing, fabric printing, furniture making, and the manufacture of batteries, automobile brakes, hand...

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