Aiken County’s 150th birthday a celebration of diversity
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AIKEN, S.C. (AP) - Buy or bake a cake and put some candles on it.
It’s Aiken County’s 150th birthday.
On March 10, 1871, South Carolina Gov. Robert K. Scott signed the legislative act that authorized its creation.
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The date is easy to pinpoint.
Much more difficult to determine, however, is the person or persons who should get the credit for Aiken County’s founding.
“It’s a complicated story because it was a decades-long process,” said Lauren Virgo, executive director of the Aiken County Historical Museum. “There were multiple men involved with it across the decades, all with their own various reasons why they wanted to found Aiken County.”