Johns Island, South Carolina

Johns Island
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StateSouth Carolina
CountyCharleston County
John's Island in May 1973
Picking beans
A small community church
A boy and his bike
Hebron Center formerly Hebron Presbyterian Church 1868

Johns Island is an island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, and is the largest island in the state of South Carolina. Johns Island is bordered by the Wadmalaw, Seabrook, Kiawah, Edisto, Folly, and James islands; the Stono and Kiawah rivers separate Johns Island from its border islands. It is the fourth-largest island on the US east coast, surpassed only by Long Island, Mount Desert Island and Martha's Vineyard. Johns Island is 84 square miles (220 km2) in area, with a population of 21,500.

Johns Island was named after Saint John Parish in Barbados by the first English colonial settlers on the island, who had come from there.[1]

  1. ^ Haynie, Connie Walpole (2007). Johns Island. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 9780738543468.