Origin of the name Oscar: derived from a Norman baronial name taken from a French place-name meaning golden city.. Others think it is merely an invention of the novelist Fanny Burney, who used it for the hero in her novel Evelina (1778). From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
Kingstree, SC. Sponsored Topics. Kingstree is a town in and the county seat of Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,496 at the 2000 census. The original town was laid out as Williamsburg by the Lords Proprieters in colonial times. But a lone, unusually large white pine was found along the Black River.
The Williamsburg County Courthouse is located in the business district of Kingstree on Main Street. The original grounds of where the courthouse stands were the original parade grounds in the town of Kingstree and were used by the militia during the revolution. The courthouse was built in 1823 by Robert Mills, a nationally known architect that hailed from South Carolina.