The park situated in the long-standing community of Mayfield Terrace will have a new name.
On May 6, the City Council conducted a virtual meeting and unanimously voted to change the name of Mayfield Terrace Park to Jackson Hughes Park.
The park, located on Dowling Avenue, is a small neighborhood park in Walterboro located in the residential area called Mayfield Terrace, just outside of the Walterboro Wildlife Sanctuary. The park contains a playground, a picnic shelter and a grill.
Now the park is to be named after the man who donated the land.
Jackson Hughes was an entrepreneur and a self-made businessman.
In the mid to late 1950s, he became associated with Dairyland which he eventually purchased and made into a highly popular local landmark. Also during this time, he and Albert Lucas Jr. started the Midget Football League and coached for three to four years. When I-95 was being built through Walterboro, Jackson and his business partners became involved with convenience stores on the interstate.
In the late 1970s, Jackson became a board member of State Savings and Loan. He served as a board member of the Colleton County Resource and Development Board and as a member of the Accommodations Tax Board. Jackson was a civic-minded individual who donated to a variety of local causes, including the land for the Mayfield Park on Dowling Avenue in 1987.
The name of Mayfield Terrace Park will now be changed to Jackson Hughes Park in his honor.
