Hello Damita, Wright's Bluff was once a Santee River port. good were brought to and Wright's Bluff Columbia or Charleston via water. There were warehouses there for the storage of commodities. The pier was next to an old cypress tree which stuck out into the water. The bank was boarded up there to form the pier. Attached to the old tree, cables were used to haul the boats up to the pier on the shore. A steamer used to call at Wright's Bluff and take passengers to Charleston. Long after the river was no longer used for transportation and the pier had rotted away, the old tree was still there. Near Wright's Bluff there was a U sort of bend in the river were plantations. Summerton was about 10 miles to the northwest of Wright's Bluff. Summerton was the Summer Town at first because the local planters wished to get away from their farms and businesses. What was to become Summerton had a healthful climate, plenty of arteisian water. Eventually it became a permanent little town. (Still there today.) The now Sumter, not in Clarendon County anymore, town of Pinewood has absorbed what was the Fulton community and Fulton is now just a crossroads. (Don't blink when you head through Pinewood either.) Pinewood was originally called Pine Log by Black men who worked there in a logging camp. Rimini (also in Sumter County but barely) was named by the Coast Line (Railroad) officials. It is thought that it was named for a place in Italy. Now, I know this info from reading the History of Sumter County and Historical Sketches of Sumter County. Cindy