Photo: Lookaway Hall, ca. 1898, 103 West Forest Avenue, North Augusta, SC. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Photographed by User:Bill Fitzpatrick (own work), 2012, [cc-by-3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, accessed June, 2014.
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The Aiken County Courthouse is located at 828 Richland Avenue West, Aiken, SC 29801; phone: 803-642-1690.
The county is named for William Aiken [1779-1831], first president of the South Carolina Railroad Company.
The county was created in 1871 from parts of Barnfield, Edgefield, Lexington and Orangeburg counties.
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