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South Carolina Highway 154

state highway in South Carolina, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ25006149 ↗
Source-derived summary

South Carolina Highway 154 (SC 154) is a 16.680-mile-long (26.844 km) state highway in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The highway connects Mayesville and Bishopville.

Route description

SC 154 begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 76 (US 76; Florence Highway) in Mayesville, within Sumter County, where the roadway continues as Mayes Open Road. It travels to the north-northwest and enters Lee County. In St. Charles, it intersects US 401 (Darlington Highway). The highway passes Lower Lee Elementary School and goes through rural areas of the county. It passes over, but does not have an interchange with Interstate 20. A short distance later, it enters Bishopville, where it meets its northern terminus, an intersection with US 15 (Sumter Highway).

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “South Carolina Highway 154” is state highway in South Carolina, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through South, Carolina and Highway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 120-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, South, Carolina and Highway is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “South Carolina Highway 154” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.