sentences:  In this relatively poor rural area, a significant fraction of those relocated were African-American farmers and sharecroppers.The government purchased or condemned their properties.Many of the residents moved themselves, and in some cases, their homes to the new town of New Ellenton, South Carolina on U.S. Highway 278, which was eight miles north, or nearby Jackson, Beech Island, Aiken, and North Augusta, South Carolina; and Augusta, Georgia.