A rural SC city built a new city hall. Now, it can't pay its debt.

The Post and Courier Pee Dee reports that Johnsonville’s new city hall as seen on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.

Deirdre Weaver-Currin covers Florence and the Pee Dee for The Post and Courier Pee Dee.

She previously worked at The Sumter Item.

Johnsonville’s new city hall as seen on Wednesday, May 13, 2026.

JOHNSONVILLE — The facade of City Hall doesn’t give away that it was once the site of an abandoned supermarket.

Nor does it reveal that three employees man the 7,000-square-foot building daily.