New Ellenton is a city in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,210 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area.
History
New Ellenton was formed from the citizens of Ellenton, a farming town chartered in 1880 and situated on the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway in Barnwell County near the Aiken County line. Upon the approval of President Truman in 1950 of the Savannah River Site for the production of hydrogen bombs, the U.S. government forced 6,000 people in the surrounding area to move. The residents of Ellenton literally moved their homes and buildings north to New Ellenton after being evicted in the 1950s.
Geography
New Ellenton is located in southern Aiken County, about north of the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Site. South Carolina Highway 19 is Main Street for the community, leading north to Aiken, the county seat, and south 1 mile to U.S. Route 278, which leads west to Augusta, Georgia, and southeast to Barnwell.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2020 census
{| class="wikitable"
|+New Ellenton racial composition
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|White (non-Hispanic)
|1,192
|53.94%
|-
|Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
|788
|35.66%
|-
|Native American
|2
|0.09%
|-
|Asian
|12
|0.54%
|-
|Other/Mixed
|116
|5.25%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino
|100
|4.52%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,210 people, 937 households, and 576 families residing in the town.
2000 census
As of the census Greendale Elementary School is in the town limits, and New Ellenton Middle STEAM Magnet School is adjacent to the town limits.
Zoned schools are Greendale Elementary School, New Ellenton Middle School, and Silver Bluff High School. Silver Bluff High opened in 1981 as a consolidated high school for New Ellenton, Beech Island, and Jackson.
New Ellenton has a public library, a branch of the ABBE Regional Library System.
References
External links
- City of New Ellenton official website
- I Don't Live There Anymore: The Ellenton Story, musical by Lawrence Holofcener and Gerard Kenny