A "Great" Town
In 1886, the Savannah Valley railroad made its way into lower Anderson County. The depot town of Cook's Station was named for Dr. Augustus G. Cook, a local physician and businessman. The town was later called Iva in honor of . . . — — Map (db m43944) HM
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In memory of those from our community who made the supreme sacrifice in order that w might continue to live in a free and prosperous nation with liberty and justice for all.
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WWI
Robert Latham, Morge . . . — — Map (db m54781) HM
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At this site once stood the town of Moffettsville, originating with the establishment of Moffett's Mills Post Office on February 16, 1818. By 1883, the town had a population of twenty-five with a physician and general store. . . . — — Map (db m23812) HM
This beautiful mural of the Old Iva Depot erected in 1886 with the C. & W.C. Train, painted by artist Oscar Velasquez, is dedicated to our forebears, to the churches and citizens of our community for their contribution to the growth of the town . . . — — Map (db m54785) HM
Neals Creek Baptist Church formally
organized in 1803, having previously
been an arm of Big Creek Baptist
Church near Williamston. It was
served by Rev. Moses Holland of Big
Creek Church until Revs. Robert King
and William McGee became . . . — — Map (db m276588) HM
Before Saddlehorn was a neighborhood, it was a rural cattle farm. Corrals like this were used (and still are in some instances) by farmers as holding pens to work with cattle that grazed the surrounding pastures. When farmers built this corral, . . . — — Map (db m11250) HM
In Memoriam The students of Pelzer Public Schools who gave their lives in World War II Jack Bannister J. Feaster Beacham Clinton Dean Grady Dunlap John D. McBrearty Jack Meares Lamar Neely John W. Phillips Harold Ross . . . — — Map (db m237673) WM
The first Pelzer Mills School, built in 1881, was a two-story frame building. The school was described as having "the air of a city school" and the mill funded a ten-month term at a time when three-months was common. The school was free and open to . . . — — Map (db m234255) HM
This is the site of a small cemetery used by the Reece family in the 19th century. Because cattle roamed freely in this area for years, the tombstones and other grave markings are broken. In 1977, the readable tombstones were recorded by family . . . — — Map (db m11091) HM
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Previously housed in a log cabin 1/2 mi. E, White Plains School moved to this site by 1890. At least sixty pupils attended the one-room frame school, which served white families from the White Plains community. The first teacher at . . . — — Map (db m238534) HM
This area was a hub of African-American life from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries. Anderson County Training School, built ca. 1922 as a Rosenwald school, closed in 1954 under the equalization program for black and white schools. It burned in . . . — — Map (db m54824) HM
The one-room frame public school organized shortly after the Civil War, housed 76 students and 1 teacher by 1870. The school term lasted 1 month and 10 days. Jane Harris Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley centers for working girls, attended . . . — — Map (db m9647) HM
This plantation on the old road to Pickensville has been the home of several prominent S.C. families. Many of its owners were members of the Pendleton Farmers Society, and during the nineteenth century, studies, experiments, and advances in . . . — — Map (db m9649) HM
Born Charleston, S.C., 1824.
Graduated West Point 1845.
Brigadier General, C.S.A., 1861.
Commanded 3rd Brigade,
Army of the Shenandoah.
July 21, 1861, at Manassas, Va., where he gave Gen. T.J. Jackson the name "Stonewall." Mortally . . . — — Map (db m39001) HM
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Confederate Brig. Gen. Clement H. Stevens (1821-1864) is buried nearby in the Bee family plot. Born in Connecticut, Stevens moved to S.C. after his father's death in 1836. In 1861 he invented the first ironclad battery, which . . . — — Map (db m9680) HM
In recognition of Dr. Don C. Garrison for his thirty-two years of devoted service as the second president of the College for his dynamic leadership within the College, the State technical college system, and community colleges nationwide; for his . . . — — Map (db m18857) HM
Founded in 1790,
Pendleton was established as the judicial seat
for the Pendleton District, today known as
Anderson, Oconee and Pickens Counties.
This Health and Heritage Walking Trail offers
a glimpse into the past and the opportunity . . . — — Map (db m29865) HM
Located in the center of Historic Pendleton (1790), the building now housing the Pendleton District Commission was constructed in 1850 as a general store for Jesse Lewis. The business first came into the Hunter family in 1870 when it became . . . — — Map (db m13903) HM
Directly behind this marker is the homesite of Joe and Mary Broyles Douthit. Born in Anderson County January 30, 1893, graduate of Clemson University, 1914. Farmer and seed breeder, lifelong member and steward of Sandy Springs United Methodist . . . — — Map (db m52075) HM
On April 8, 1790, the Justices of the Peace for Pendleton County purchased this land to establish the courthouse town of Pendleton. Once Cherokee Indian land, the town became the judicial, social and commercial center for what now are Anderson, . . . — — Map (db m9614) HM
This London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina. Later in Pendleton he founded Miller's Weekly . . . — — Map (db m144322) HM
Born in 1840, Colonel Simpson, lawyer, farmer, and legislator, drafted and executed Thomas Green Clemson's will, establishing Clemson Agricultural College in 1889. Simpson was first president of the college's board of trustees and once owned land . . . — — Map (db m9682) HM
This property was this site of a private residence as early as 1830's. In 1860, John Baylis Earle Sloan and his wife, Mollie Seaborne Sloan, established a home that became known as Tanglewood.
The columns and the ruins seen today are all . . . — — Map (db m16616) HM
These extra wide porches, used for entertaining and enjoyment of he cool breezes, are called piazzas.
Seen on every piazza is a joggling board. In this country, the joggling board got its start in Charleston in 1803. By lightly bouncing, . . . — — Map (db m36306) HM
The paved brick walk leads to the gravesite of Thomas Green Clemson, founder of Clemson University. He was a Scientist, Agriculturist, Statesman, and Educator. His gift to South Carolina of an Institution for the promotion of education in the fields . . . — — Map (db m13938) HM
A native Philadelphian and leading agriculturist, Mr. Clemson was U.S. charge d'affaires to Belgium, U.S. Superintendent of Agriculture, and the 1868 president of Pendleton Farmers Society. He married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, Anna, . . . — — Map (db m9681) HM
Dedicated in 1979
in Honor of
Thomas Green Clemson
1807-1888
A Native Philadelphian and
Leading Agriculturist. Mr.
Clemson was U.S. Charge
D'Affaires to Belgium, U.S.
Superintendent of
Agriculture, and the
1868 President . . . — — Map (db m16617) HM
Memories of the Plantation Era -- Owners and Tenants
Owners
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1822, made Woodburn Historic House his summer home around 1830. A graduate of Harvard . . . — — Map (db m15361) HM
Some 200 yards west of here stands Woodburn, built by S.C. Lieutenant Governor Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by 1832. Dr. John B. Adger, Presbyterian minister to Armenia, bought Woodburn in 1852; in 1881 Augustine T. Smythe began a model stock farm . . . — — Map (db m9588) HM
Sandy Springs Camp Ground: This Methodist camp ground named for the large spring nearby, dates to 1828, when a fifteen-acre site was purchased from Sampson Pope for $45. Early meetings were under a brush arbor until a central wooden shelter . . . — — Map (db m10785) HM
Dean
Dean is named for the Dean family, whose cemetery is located about a mile west. Samuel Dean came to South Carolina from Maryland in 1786 and settled here in the Mountain Creek area along with the Cummins and James families. Dean and his . . . — — Map (db m11712) HM
Project Data
The Hartwell Project, second in a series of multi-purpose projects planned for the Savannah River Basin, was constructed between October 1955 and December 1963 at a cost of about $90,000,000. The concrete dam rises 204 feet . . . — — Map (db m57899) HM
Ruhamah Methodist Church
organized in 1822 and
initially worshipped under
a brush arbor. The first
church, known as the Ruhamah
Meeting House, was built at
this site which congregants
acquired in 1836. Soon after
organizing, members . . . — — Map (db m276580) HM
Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church. This is the first known site of Townville Presbyterian Church, founded in this area in 1803 as Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church. The church held its services at members' homes until . . . — — Map (db m10784) HM
One thousand feet due north on a site now covered by Hartwell Reservoir, the Portman Shoals Power Plant, built by William C. Whitner, began the transmission of high-voltage electricity in 1897 over the longest lines then used for that purpose in . . . — — Map (db m258865) HM
Named in Honor of
J.H. (Doc) Saylors
For his dedicated public
service to South Carolina
10th Dist. Highway Commissioner
1958-1962
Chairman S.C. Highway Commission
1960-1961 — — Map (db m10845) HM
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This church, founded as Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church, was established in 1803. It met in members homes until they paid $1.50 for a half-acre tract and built a small frame church 2.5 mi. E. The founders cemetery . . . — — Map (db m39349) HM
One of the oldest congregations and the mother of several others in Anderson County, it was organized in 1788 by Elder Moses Holland who served as pastor for 41 years. Dr. James Bruton Gambrell's mother was a member here. Soldiers of five wars . . . — — Map (db m8441) HM
On May 1, 1865, cadets from the Arsenal Academy at Columbia, under Capt. John Peyre Thomas, who were en route from Greenville to Newberry to be disbanded, met a band of Stoneman's raiders near here in one of the last engagements of the war, which . . . — — Map (db m8395) HM
In Memory of
West Allen Williams
1804 - 1857
Founded Williamston
Donor of Spring
&
Park
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He said
This Water Shall by Forever
Free to All People — — Map (db m15795) HM
"Embraced by the gratitude of an entire community and held in the love and admiration of a descended family, here rests the earthen tabernacles of our beloved founder, West Allen Williams, and family. Reverently moved from a forgotten cemetery a . . . — — Map (db m19714) HM
A South Carolina "Spa"
In 1852, following the discovery of a "healing" spring and the announcement that the railroad was going to be running through the area, the Town of Williamston was chartered. In time, lots were sold for houses to be . . . — — Map (db m15719) HM
This college was founded Feb. 12, 1872, by the Reverend Samuel Lander, D.D., Methodist minister. On this site stood the college building until 1939. The school was removed to Greenwood, S.C., Sept. 27, 1904, becoming Lander College, in honor of . . . — — Map (db m8440) HM
This site and the one directly in front, Mineral Spring Park, which was donated by West Allen Williams in 1842, formed the nucleus for the new Town of Mineral Springs. In 1852, the town received its charter and the name was changed to Williamston . . . — — Map (db m19733) HM
Hooten- Black House & Bamberg's National Historic District
The Hooten- Black House is the hub of art and history in Bamberg County where you will find changing art exhibitions,
concerts, and lectures on Bamburg County history. The Hooten- . . . — — Map (db m32840) HM
Bamberg County Courthouse, named for Gen. Francis Marion Bamberg, was formed in 1897. One of the first projects undertaken was the construction of a new courthouse and jail. The construction was financed by the City of Bamberg in return for the . . . — — Map (db m219695) HM
Motto: This we'll defend
"The soldier is the Army. No Army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's . . . — — Map (db m301371) HM WM
SC Methodists began an institution on this site in
1892 naming it Carlisle Fitting School, for James H.
Carlisle, president of Wofford College 1875-1902.
It served as a coeducational preparatory institution
for Wofford. Col. James F. Risher . . . — — Map (db m26427) HM
This plantation was the home of Maj. William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858), planter, merchant, and the founder of Bamberg. Maj. Bamberg, a native of what was then Barnwell District, returned to this area from Georgia in the late 1840s. The town of . . . — — Map (db m84466) HM
(Front text) Woodlands was the country home of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the most prominent and prolific writer of the antebellum South, from 1836 to his death. A novelist, poet, historian, critic, and essayist best known for his . . . — — Map (db m32008) HM
This Georgian Revival building, completed in 1923, at the cost of $300,000, was the third Denmark office of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. In 1898, long-distance lines from Virginia to Georgia, and from Alabama to Charleston crossed . . . — — Map (db m19636) HM
Denmark Beginnings
The town was originally known as Graham's
Turnout, when the South Carolina Canal &
Railroad line came through in the 1830s.
There were 16turnouts, or pull-offs for
passing, on the line with watering tanks
and . . . — — Map (db m14526) HM
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Denmark High School is the second school located at this spot. The first Denmark School, designed by Charles Coker Wilson, was completed in 1908 and once stood adjacent to the current building. The core of the current school was . . . — — Map (db m180068) HM
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In 1801 John Holman constructed a bridge spanning the South Fork of the Edisto River at a site previously known as Tyler's Ferry, about 1/2 mi. N. of here. Two acts of the General Assembly granted Holman the right to charge a toll . . . — — Map (db m110750) HM
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Voorhees College, founded by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright
in 1897 as the Denmark Industrial School, was an
effort to emphasize a vocational curriculum for
rural African American students on the model of
the Tuskegee Institute. . . . — — Map (db m19639) HM
Eleven years after the battle of Rivers Bridge,
a group of local young men formed the Rivers
Bridge Confederate Memorial Association and
reburied the Confederate dead here, about a
mile from the battlefield. The Memorial
Association began to . . . — — Map (db m15671) HM
[Photo of guest room]
Ehrhardt Hall
This restored 19th century mansion located in
the town of Ehrhardt is a bed and breakfast
and features six guest rooms with amenities
including fireplaces.
[Photo of Sinclair . . . — — Map (db m27445) HM
Battle At Rivers Bridge
On February 2 ~ 3, 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman's
Federals advanced toward Columbia, units of
Gen. F.P. Blair's XVII Corps attempted to cross
the Salkehatchie River at Rivers Bridge. The
Confederate defenders . . . — — Map (db m7708) HM
Invasion! In January 1865, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's army of 60,000 Union soldiers invaded South Carolina. Its goals: to link up with Ulysses S. Grant's forces opposing Robert E. Lee's Confederates in Virginia and destroy the South's . . . — — Map (db m7437) HM
Crucial Routes to the Heart of the State: The Salkehatchie River Crossings As Sherman's right wing- about 28,000 men underGen. Oliver Otis Howard- advanced up the south side of the Salkehatchie, Gen. Lafayette McLaws' Confederate division . . . — — Map (db m7440) HM
Dig In Part of McLaws' division protected the middle crossing of the Salkehatchie at Rivers Bridge. This small force, consisting of a brigade of Georgia infantrymen, South Carolina cavalrymen and four cannons of the South Carolina Light . . . — — Map (db m7441) HM
"This Indescribably Ugly Salkehatchie " At Rivers Bridge the Salkehatchie flowed though a swamp a
half mile wide. The only road through it was a narrow earthen causeway with multiple wooden bridges. The Confederates hoped the thick swamp and . . . — — Map (db m7455) HM
Attack! Gen. Joseph A. Mower's Union division advanced rapidly to Rivers Bridge on the afternoon of Feb. 2 and charged down a narrow causeway. Confederate cannon fire stopped the attack and forced the Yankees to take cover in the cold swamp. The . . . — — Map (db m7456) HM
A Running Battle on the River Road On Feb.2, Union troops moved up the road on the opposite bank of the Salkehatchie, fighting a running battle with the Confederate cavalrymen who tried to slow their advance. Among the casualties was Pvt. John . . . — — Map (db m7457) HM
A Vulnerable Stronghold The Confederates were confident they could stop another head-on Union assault. But they feared for the safety of their flanks, knowing they did not have enough men to resist attacks that might strike the ends of their . . . — — Map (db m7458) HM
Death and Defeat
As Mower's troops flanked the Confederate right, another Union division crossed several miles downstream to flank the Confederate left. Under a smokescreen created by a rapid artillery and rifle volleys, the Southerners . . . — — Map (db m7464) HM
The End is Near
The Union Victory broke the main Confederate line of defense in lower South Carolina. McLaws' troops retreated to another line behind the Edisto River about 20 miles northeast of here, then continued to fall back as . . . — — Map (db m7467) HM
Here on February 3, 1865, the 17th U.S. Army Corps led by Major General Joseph A. Mower and Lieut. Gen. Giles A. Smith attacked the Confederate division of Major General Lafayette McLaws and forced the crossing of Salkehatchie River, after a . . . — — Map (db m11318) HM
Colleton County
In Memory Of Our
Confederate Soldiers
Who Here Gave Their Lives
In Defense Of
A Righteous Cause
Feb. 3 and 4, 1865 — — Map (db m53729) HM
Conrad Ehrhardt was born in Weiterade Kuhrhessen Germany on December 13, 1832 and left home at the age of 19 to come to America. He came with only 25 cents in his pocket and skills that he aquired from the mills, in which he had worked, in Germany. . . . — — Map (db m7602) HM
Ehrhardt Hall was built in 1903 with Victorian style architecture. The owner, Dr. James Haynes Roberts, born March 2, 1863, was originally from the Allendale area. Following in his father's footsteps, who was a self taught dentist and 2nd . . . — — Map (db m300770) HM
In 1835 St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church
moved here from about 1 mi. south and
changed its name to Mt. Pleasant.
It is generally accepted that this
congregation was organized ca. 1750
and that John George Bamberg
preached there shortly after . . . — — Map (db m8795) HM
Most of the Confederates killed here were Georgians, and most were unknown when they were reburied. But the local community remembered them as "our Confederate dead," the fallen heroes of a common cause. The monument placed over their mass grave . . . — — Map (db m15650) HM
( Front face )
In Memory
of our
Confederate Dead
who fell in battle at
River's Bridges
Feb. 4, 1865.
(Reverse face ) Soldier's rest, your welfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep . . . — — Map (db m15652) HM
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The Legacy of Total War
From January to March in 1865 more than
60,000 Union soldiers led by General
William Tecumseh Sherman marched
across South Carolina. They brought
total war to the state, . . . — — Map (db m15646) HM
(Front text) This church, established 1829 30, was first named Three Mile Creek Church and held early services in a brush arbor 4 mi. W on the Salkehatchie River. In 1839 it moved to this site donated by George Kinard, and was renamed St. . . . — — Map (db m32605) HM
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Mountain Home Plantation, named for the hill on which it is located, was established before the Civil War. In 1859 Samuel J. Hartzog (1823-1890) bought the plantation from his brother Joseph (1826-1862), and built this . . . — — Map (db m219665) HM
This church, founded by 1818, held its early services in a brush arbor; the first permanent sanctuary was built nearby. In 1848 Capt. J.D. Allen sold this 4-acre site to the trustees for $1.00. The present church, built soon afterwards, has been . . . — — Map (db m32092) HM
Methodist Church
established by 1832.
Present 1856 house of
worship is all that
remains of pre~ Civil
War Settlement of
Buford's Bridge. — — Map (db m255658) HM
Elisha, Henry, James H. and Richard
Morris enlisted in the Confederate Army
Apr 9, 1862, served in Co. G, 2nd
S.C. Art'y for the duration of the war
They were farmers, owning large tracts of
land. Much of the land for the South . . . — — Map (db m32657) HM
(Front Text) Buford's Bridge, the earliest settlement in what is now Bamberg County, was established as early as 1792, when William Buford maintained a bridge and operated a ferry over the Salkehatchie River. It grew throughout the nineteenth . . . — — Map (db m7644) HM
Helicopter 17338 "The Jefferson Airplane" served in
Vietnam from 1968-1972 with the 92nd Assault Helicopter
Company (AHC) "Stallions"' with the 190th AHC, and the
17th Calvary, A Troop, 1st Aviation Brigade
The US Army infantry units . . . — — Map (db m29391) HM
The oldest known device for the measurement of time,
a sundial indicates time by the position of the shadow
of a gnomon cast by the sun on the face of a dial
marked in hours. The gnonon is a flat piece of metal in
the center of the dial with . . . — — Map (db m9000) HM
Bank Of Barnwell
This building, constructed
in 1887 as the Bank of
Barnwell, was home to a
succession of banks for 116
years. The bank occupied
the first floor, and the law
offices occupied the second
floor, with additions in . . . — — Map (db m63199) HM
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Barnwell, originally called “Red Hill” and later “the Village,” was founded in 1800 when a courthouse was built on land donated by Benjamin Odom. Both Winton County and its new county seat were renamed for . . . — — Map (db m8524) HM
Barnwell Army Airfield was built to
serve as a satellite base to the
Columbia Army Air Base during WWII.
Construction of the Barnwell base
began in September, 1942, with the
first plane landing three weeks
later. The base was completed . . . — — Map (db m28900) HM
Sometimes called the Red Hill Cemetery. Original site of Barnwell First Baptist Church. First Baptist Church is the oldest continual
institution in Barnwell. Established in 1802. Both the 1850 building and the 1926 building stood on this site. . . . — — Map (db m72643) HM
Our Confederate Dead
(West Face) Who throughout a long
and bloody struggle dis-
played a heroism and de-
votion to duty unsurpass-
ed. If ever equaled in the
annals of war.
(South face)
Who wrung from the great . . . — — Map (db m8657) HM
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Barnwell County, originally Winton County, was created out of Orangeburgh District in 1785. Renamed Barnwell District in 1798 for John Barnwell (1748-1800), a S.C. militia officer in the Revolution and afterwards, it became . . . — — Map (db m8717) HM
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