Cottageville, South Carolina
Cottageville is a town in Colleton County, South Carolina, Colleton County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 762 at the 2010 census. Geography and government facilities Cottageville is in eastern Colleton County, along U.S. Route 17 Alternate (South Carolina), U.S. Route 17 Alt. Walterboro, South Carolina, Walterboro, the county seat, is to the west, and Summerville, South Carolina, Summerville is to the east. According to the United States Census Bureau, Cottageville has a total area of , all land. Cottageville has a public library, a branch of the Colleton County Library System. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 707 people, 274 households, and 206 families residing in the town. The population density was 222.2 people per square mile (85.8/km2). There were 310 housing units at an average density of 97.4 per square mile (37.6/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 85.71% White (U.S. Census), White, 11.88% African American (U.S. Census), Afri ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, ...
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