Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Bowman, SC

Bowman is an incorporated town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, located at the intersection of U.S. Route 178 (the Charleston Highway) and S.C. Highway 210.

The town was founded in 1887, when Orangeburg businessman Samuel W. Dibble Sr. bought substantial land from the estate of Reddick A. Bowman, for whom the town is named.

Bowman grew up around the Smoak Tramway, a six-mile logging railroad chartered in 1884, and the Branchville and Bowman Railroad, chartered in 1890 and completed in 1893, later connected the new town to Branchville.

The townsite lies on an old colonial-era road between Charleston and Orangeburg, in a plateau area once known as Oak Ridge.

The surrounding land, with its clay subsoil, was first rice country and later became a major cotton-producing area.

After the boll weevil destroyed the cotton crop in the early twentieth century, Bowman farmers turned to dairying; the town's first fluid milk was shipped for processing on January 1, 1927, and Bowman is now known as the Dairy Capital of South Carolina.

The 2020 census counted 788 people, 317 households, and 150 families in Bowman.

Bowman's population peaked at 1,198 in the 2000 census; it was first counted in 1900 with 134 residents.

On December 5, 1977, a tornado struck downtown Bowman, unroofing buildings and demolishing trailers; three people were injured but no one was killed.

Bowman was long home to the UFO Welcome Center, a homemade flying-saucer roadside attraction built partly with lumber from the local V.P. Kiser Lumber Company; the structure burned down and, as of 2024, there were no plans to rebuild it.