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Van Wyck is an unincorporated community in the panhandle of Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States. There are many ways of pronouncing the name of the community- Wick, Wack, and Wike. Families who have lived in this area since its founding in the 1880s generally pronounce it as Van Wyck- as in "there is a lot to like about Van 'Wyck."

Van Wyck was named in 1887 by Mrs. Hoke, the wife of an officer of the Seaboard Railroad. One day while stopped at the train Depot near the brickyard, Mrs. Hoke stepped off the train, looked around and liked the small village so much that she named it Van Wyck which was her maiden name.