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History · Manville

Half of Manville’s homes were built after 1993

Most of Manville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Manville’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 Manville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Manville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Manville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Manville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census with a population of 471. The CDP is in central Lee County along U.S. Route 15, 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Bishopville, the county seat, and 17 miles (27 km) north of Sumter. South Carolina Highway 441 has its northeastern terminus at US 15 just south of the CDP; Highway 441 leads southwest 19 miles (31 km) to U.S. Routes 76 and 378 next to Shaw Air Force Base west of Sumter. Scape Ore Swamp, a tributary of the Black River, forms the western border of the community.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Manville

Nobody well known was born in Manville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Bernard Mannes BaruchAmerican businessman · b. 1870
Ja MorantAmerican basketball player · b. 1999
Mary McLeod BethuneAmerican educator and civil rights leader · b. 1875
Jim ClyburnAmerican politician · b. 1940
Jay EllisAmerican actor · b. 1981
Samuel E. WrightAmerican actor · b. 1946
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Another post office, Mannville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

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

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From 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.