Notable people The town was the birthplace of Gashouse Gang member Pat Crawford and the Oklahoma jurist Henry Marshall Furman. The Welsh Neck-Long Bluff-Society Hill Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Japonica Hall was listed separately in 1989. Former Governor David Beasley was from Society Hill and represented the area in the South Carolina House of Representatives for almost twenty years.
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