St. Stephen, South Carolina
St. Stephen is a town in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,697 at the 2010 census. St. Stephen is included within the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metropolitan area. History The Keller Site and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography St. Stephen is located in northern Berkeley County at (33.405024, -79.923365), between Lake Moultrie to the west and the Santee River to the northeast. The town lies along the western edge of Francis Marion National Forest near its northernmost point. U.S. Route 52 runs through the center of the town, leading north to Kingstree and south to Moncks Corner, the Berkeley County seat. South Carolina Highway 45 crosses US 52 in the town center and leads west to Eutawville and southeast to McClellanville near the Atlantic Ocean. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2020 c ...
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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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