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History · Lugoff

Lugoff’s post office opened in 1900

More historic than 3% of U.S. towns · #154 of 169 in South Carolina. What drives it

Most of Lugoff was built recently: 0.2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: maps from 1938 on.

1900first post office
0on the National Register
0.2%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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Quick answers

How Lugoff began

When was Lugoff founded?

1900

The Lugoff post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 9,990126 years

How historic is Lugoff?

D−

More historic than 3% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Lugoff post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Lugoff’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lugoff is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns, #154 of 169 in South Carolina. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

D−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Lugoff’s overall grade.
Founding era1900, from the first post office: founded 1900–1944, an older era than 9% of U.S. townsDHomes built before 19400.2% of homes (±0.3) · typical SC town 3.5% · U.S. 8.4%DNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical SC town 3.2 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 3%
NewerOlder
South Carolina towns of 2,500+ (169)Ahead of 9%

South Carolina towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical South Carolina town has 3.2 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Lugoff’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of South Carolina towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would still be D−. The pre-1940 share (±0.3 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Lugoff’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Lugoff are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages13 hamlets and corners are still on the map.
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Start Lugoff’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lugoff’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Old corners and places now gone

Lugoff’s post office has been open since 1900.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Four SeasonsGettysburgMayfield AcresPecan GrovePecan OrchardPepper RidgePine LandPine MarkSandwood HillsSpring VillageThe GrovesThunderwoodsWoodland Forest
Gone or out of use
Carys Fort PlantationlocaleSaint John ChurchchurchWaterham Plantationlocale

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Lugoff came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lugoff.

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Lugoff was named for Count Lugoff. The Count was a Russian engineer who worked on construction of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1899. The railroad had a station in Lugoff.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lugoff, 1900 to 1938

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Lugoff post office opens
  3. 1906Born hereDonald Leroy Truesdell is born here
  4. 1931Born hereBrook Benton is born here
  5. 1938On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Lugoff, decade by decade

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On the map

Lugoff on the map, 1938 to 1953

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lugoff. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Lugoff on the 1938 USGS mapLugoff on the 1953 USGS map1938Hagood sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lugoff.

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Lugoff

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Brook BentonAmerican singer · b. 1931
Donald Leroy TruesdellUnited States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recip… · b. 1906

Questions about Lugoff’s history

What year was Lugoff founded?

The Lugoff post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Lugoff rank for history?

Lugoff is more historic than 3% of U.S. towns, #154 of 169 in South Carolina. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Lugoff?

0.2% of Lugoff’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.5% for a South Carolina town; the median home was built in 1995.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.