Hamburg is perhaps South Carolina\'s most famous ghost town.
Yet more than a century after Hamburg,.
These gains were wiped away after the Hamburg Massacre in 1876, a watershed event that left seven African Americans dead, most of them executed in cold blood.
During Reconstruction, recently freed slaves reshaped Hamburg into a freedmen\'s village, where residents held local, county and state offices.
Founded in 1821, it grew to four thousand residents before transportation advances led to decline.
Hamburg is perhaps South Carolina\'s most famous ghost town