From natural hardwoods and beautiful rolling terrain, the Chapin area offers a combination of appealing features that makes it a perfect spot for families, young couples and empty nesters. The award winning Lexington 5 schools are among the best in the state, but you don't have to have children to love it here. The community offer many other ammenities that attract even to the most critical eye. It is also close to Lake Murray and conveniently located close to I-26 and Greater Columbia with it's vast array of shopping, dining and entertainment.

In the mid-1700s, when everything west of Columbia was frontier, a group of German settlers, many of them armed with land grants from the English crown, laid claim to the land between the forks of the Saluda and Broad Rivers. It came to be known as the Dutch Fork, the “Dutch” being an anglicized form of Deutsch (referring to the German language and people.)

Few of the Fork’s German settlers ever left its boundaries, and even fewer outsiders ever came to stay. In the 1800’s, Dutch Forkers had developed their own subculture, their own particular--some would say peculiar--ways. Some still spoke German well into the 19th century, and those who didn’t, had a dialect all their own. They measured success not in money or fame, but in family and community ties. They were poor, but proud. They made the most of the little they had. They believed in hard work, in saving up for even harder times, and in a benevolent God. (READ MORE)

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