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Hampton County celebrates Watermelon Festival

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By WTOC Staff

HAMPTON COUNTY, SC (WTOC) - People in Hampton County South Carolina are in the middle of their Annual Watermelon Festival.

It's a weeklong party that celebrated farming in general, but also watermelons in particular.

It culminates this weekend with a Grand Parade that stretches from Varnville to Hampton. It is rumored to be the longest in South Carolina.

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