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The county was originally part of Orangeburg District, and in 1785 it was named Winton County. It was given its current name in 1798 when the County and its seat were named for Revolutionary War leader John Barnwell (1748-1800). Barnwell County, originally stretched from the Savannah River on the west almost to the Atlantic Ocean. The South Carolina Railroad built in 1832, connected Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston to Hamburg on the Savannah River. Hamburg was near Augusta, Georgia. This was the first steam railroad in the world. The railroad went through the middle of the county and two stops on the railroad created the towns of BlackvilleBlackville, South Carolina and WillistonWilliston, South Carolina in the mid-nineteenth century. Built in 1858, the sundial in Barnwell, South Carolina is the only remaining vertical freestanding sundial in the USA. It was surrounded by a parking lot in the 1960’s but in the 1990s the Town of Barnwell removed the parking lot, building a park, and made the sundial a focal point of a park. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnwell%2C_South_Carolina
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