River View Community

SE Columbus County; formerly known as Crusoe Island. Renamed by resolution of the General Assembly, 1961. A marshy and sandy section between the Waccamaw River and the Columbus-Brunswick county line, it lies on the edge of Green Swamp, which see. It was named Crusoe Island by outsiders because of its isolation. French political refugees, who first settled in Haiti, are said to have arrived there in 1806; their descendants still live there. Roads now penetrate the area.