Chapin, popularly known as the “Capital of Lake Murray”, is a little lake town located at the northern tip of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. Lake Murray separates Chapin from the dismount of Lexington County. The population of Chapin was 1,445 according to the 2010 census, and an estimated 1,633 in 2019.

Chapin is located approximately 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Columbia, and many people commute there for work; however, the town is considered fringe rural by the US postal service.

The town executive is set happening in the mayor-council form, and the current mayor is Albert Koon. Chapin has four public schools in the area; the first Chapin instructor was built in 1924. Lake Murray is the main sympathy to Chapin and provides boaters in imitation of water-related recreation.

Chapin is named after Martin Chapin in 1889. After Chapin and Laura Anne Benjamin were married on June 16, 1850, the couple moved alongside South because of Martin’s health (a lung condition). The Chapins were blooming in Columbia behind Martin’s doctor suggested he to concern to the Piney Woods area. He bought property in this area, and exceeding the years Chapin bought 4,218 acres (1,707 ha). He built a house in Piney Woods and far ahead a hotel in the 1880s along the additional rail stock that ran from Columbia to Laurens, the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad. The railroad provided a quirk to trade and transport goods to the capital city. Cotton and the lumber industry were wealthy with the railroad providing transportation. After Martin’s death on August 31, 1894, Laura Chapin sold their home and moved into the Chapin hotel.