Editing Norway, South Carolina (section)

==History==
Norway was laid out in 1891 when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref name="Item">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aRwyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yKoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1342%2C7231906 | title=Railroad gave towns names | work=The Sumter Daily Item | date=August 20, 1981 | access-date=October 28, 2015 | author=Boman, Roberta A. | pages=6B}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Norway since 1892.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=SC&county=Orangeburg&searchtext=&pagenum=3 | title=Orangeburg County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=October 28, 2015}}</ref> The town was so named in order to fit with the railroad's "Scandinavian" naming scheme; other such examples include [[Sweden, South Carolina]] and [[Finland, South Carolina]].<ref name="Item" />

The [[Willow Consolidated High School]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2006.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

===Race riot===
On July 4, 1903, the majority [[African-American]] population rose in protest, in reaction to the lynching on July 1 of resident Charles Evans, who was suspected of killing disabled Confederate veteran John T. Phillips. Along with the [[Lynching in the United States|lynching]] of Evans, two other black residents of Norway were beaten by a white mob, with one later dying of his injuries. According to news reports at the time, the murder of Phillips was perpetrated in revenge for Phillips' son whipping black workers.<ref>"Negro Uprising in South Carolina" ''New York Times'' July 5, 1903</ref> Nearly 200 armed black residents took over the town before a militia was called by Governor [[Duncan Clinch Heyward]] to restore white control. At the time, only 50 of Norway's 200 residents were white.