11/06/2020
HISTORY OF RIMINI, S.C.
“Unincorporated”
An Italian logging crew reportedly named this town for the village of Rimini on the Adriatic seacoast in the eastern Italy. It was originally known as Yorkville and became Antioch before finally changing to Rimini. The town straddles the border of Sumter and Clarendon counties and located on the Old River Road, which used to be a Stagecoach line from Camben to Georgetown.
When the Brooklyn Cooperage Railroad abandoned its logging operation at the Logsport near St Paul, it moved to Rimini, where it used the lumber products available there to make sugar barrels. There is reportedly an extensive network of embankments and trestles now under the waters of the Lake Marion near Rimini. In the 1920s, Rimini had its own newspaper, the Rimini Gazette, and was a vibrant community with the railroad, stores and gin or grist mill and lumber companies. Rimini is also was the home of two Afro-Schools, named Spring Grove, and Rimini Community School.
One of the thriving “businesses” in Rimini in the past years was “White Lightning,” which was sold as far away as Chicago, and was reported to be of high quality. Thee present-day Rimini is a shadow of its former self with the only business being Packs Landing (which actually resides in Sumter County), a church and a “night club.” The location is 33.40’9” N80.30’2” W; elevation is 126 feet.
