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City in South Carolina, United States
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Florence is a city in the Pee Dee Country Region of South Carolina. It was the site of the Florence Stockade, a Confederate POW camp, notably bad but still maybe not as bad as Andersonville, then a railroad hub, and nowadays a regional center for medical care and manufacturing, including as it sits at the terminus for I-20. Even though it got started rather late, in 1871, it's more or less the hub for northeastern South Carolina, aka Pee Dee Country.
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Between 1864 and 1865, about 16,000 Union soldiers were held captive here, in abysmal conditions that consummated in the deaths of about 2,800 of these men. The site is not as developed as Andersonville State Historic Park is in Georgia today, but it still offers opportunity for a reflective mood.
Next to the stockade, this is where a lot of the POW camp casualties ended up.
Southern food restaurant with weekly entertainment and reasonable prices.
You can really chow down here at this American buffet.
BBQ and seafood buffet.
Pool and light breakfast.
Charming southern inn. Multi-course prix-fixe dinner served for $65. Rooms have a private bath, TV, and wifi.
Many well known stores inside such as Best Buy, Sunglass Hut, Express, JC Penney, Foot Locker, Barnes & Nobles, etc.
Florence Regional Airport has nonstop service to Charlotte on American Airlines.
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