This 1888 Queen Anne house was the home of Gen. Samuel McGowan (1819-1897) until his death. McGowan, a lawyer, Confederate general, and jurist born in Laurens Co., had moved to Abbeville in 1841. He was an officer during the Mexican War and in the . . . — — Map (db m21732) HM
Life in Aiken
The coming of the railroad was a major factor
in the birth of Aiken. The all-important cotton
crop and Graniteville fabrics could get to market.
Add to life in Aiken a lady lonesome for her
wealthy friends up North and you . . . — — Map (db m63263) HM
Aiken Hospital
The first public hospital in Aiken, at the corner of Richland Ave. and Vaucluse Rd., was built in 1917 for the Aiken Hospital and Relief Society, with donations from members of the “Aiken Winter Colony.” The City of . . . — — Map (db m54518) HM
The Aiken Institute, which gave this area the name of “Institute Hill,” was chartered in 1888. The main building, designed by I.F. Goodrich in 1891, includes a wing added in 1913. All grades attended the Institute until 1937, when a . . . — — Map (db m9942) HM
A sesquicentennial memorial gift to the city of Aiken by the family of Thomas H. Williamson (1888-1962), former county treasurer, member of the Aiken County Historical Commission and direct descendant of this cabin's builder. — — Map (db m102353) HM
The Highland Park Hotel, Aiken’s first grand tourist hotel, stood atop this plateau. It was built in 1869-70 and opened in 1870. A four-story Second Empire wing built in 1874 doubled its capacity to 350 guests. Open from November to June, it . . . — — Map (db m29974) HM
One of the oldest houses in Alken, this was home to the Legare family, including writer James Mathewes Legare (1823-1859), who lived here beginning in 1846. Portions of the house date to as early as 1837. The south wing was built c. 1852 as a . . . — — Map (db m213324) HM
(Front text)
This plantation house, first known as “Edgewood,” is an excellent example of Federal-era architecture. Originally near Edgefield, it was built in 1828 for Francis W. Pickens (1807-1869), state representative and . . . — — Map (db m43154) HM
Originally located in China Springs, near Aiken, and believed to have been built in the 1890's this schoolhouse was given to the Aiken County Historical Commission by Mrs. Guerin Hermann of Sandersville, Georgia in 1975.
The one room . . . — — Map (db m63475) HM
The Hampton Terrace Hotel, an exclusive winter resort, stood atop this hill from 1903 to 1916. The $536,000, 5-story hotel boasted more than 300 rooms and was the dream of James U. Jackson (1856-1925), founder of North Augusta. A private . . . — — Map (db m31103) HM
Jacksonville School
Jacksonville School, built by the Jacksonville Lodge in 1895, taught the black children of this community until 1936. Grades 1-7, with two teachers, met in two classrooms on the first floor, without electricity or running . . . — — Map (db m31175) HM
Organized in 1833 by Dr. and Mrs.
W.R. Erwin and Mrs. U.M. Robert,
this was the second Christian
Church (Disciples Of Christ)
founded in South Carolina.
Dr. J.D. Erwin, II, served
as minister for forty years.
The present building . . . — — Map (db m19635) HM
Lutheran church, org. by 1804, has occupied
several sites. Today's structure, built in 1910,
incorporates material from the 1884 church and
stands about 2 mi south. — — Map (db m7842) HM
This is Anderson County's second court house. It stands on the site of the first small brick court house where the first court session in Anderson was held on the third Monday in October, 1820. The present building of pronounced Victorian . . . — — Map (db m10692) HM
For over a decade, the Board of Trustees, the staff, and Friends of the Anderson County Library have pursued a dream of building a library adequate in size and scope to meet the needs of the community. Today, the original Carnegie-endowed Anderson . . . — — Map (db m81274) HM
This building was erected as the home of the Bank of Anderson, an outgrowth of the Anderson National Bank founded in 1872 with Col. Joseph Newton Brown as president. The early bank was located on the west side of the square. It was the second . . . — — Map (db m21221) HM
The original Anderson High School sat on the corner of North Fant and East Calhoun Streets. All grade levels were taught despite being called a high school. This school burned down in 1904 and was rebuilt the following year. Due to overcrowding, . . . — — Map (db m65305) HM
Entered on the National Register
of Historic Places
December 13, 1971
Federal Building
U.S. Courthouse
Federal Postal Station
Anderson, South Carolina
Thomas Harlan Ellett
Architect 1938
This . . . — — Map (db m19912) HM
The home of Judge Joseph N. Whitner, Anderson County's founding father, was located at the crest of this will. It stood until recent years when it was torn down. Judge Whitner was a South Carolina House of Representative from Pendleton District . . . — — Map (db m59361) HM
Belton Academy
This site, on a lot donated by Dr. George Brown, was the location of a school for more than a century, Belton Academy, a private school with a classical curriculum, opened ca. 1851 as the town grew up around the new railroad . . . — — Map (db m81782) HM
Replacing the wooden structure located across the street that had served the Belton Community since 1853, the brick Southern & Blue Ridge Combined Railway Depot was designed in 1907 and completed by 1910. In the heyday of passenger and freight train . . . — — Map (db m31012) HM
This house, built c. 1854 for railroad supervisor Charles C. Chamberlain, was among the first homes constructed in Belton. When the town incorporated in 1855, Chamberlain was chosen as the first intendent. Ira Williams, who was active in . . . — — Map (db m87307) HM
Honea Path is the smallest town of the fourteen South Carolina communities with libraries funded by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. Dr. John Wright, Mayor John Humbert, and Miss Jennie Erwin were leaders in obtaining the $5000 grant. The Honea . . . — — Map (db m10759) HM
This building and lot donated to the Town of Iva and the Iva District 10 Fire Department by W. Parker Bowie and his wife Marie T. Bowie in honor of his father Luther E. Bowie and his mother Lucia P. Bowie.
Dedicated to the citizens of this . . . — — Map (db m54816) 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
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
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
(side 1)
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 . . . — — Map (db m219695) 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 lieutenant . . . — — Map (db m20908) 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
(Front text)
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
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
The county courthouse was on this site from 1871 to 1874. In 1869 Republican state senator Charles P. Leslie, a native of New York, sponsored an act to move the county seat from Barnwell to Blackville. Court was first held in a church until a . . . — — Map (db m8704) HM
This church was organized by Rev.
James H. Thornwell on authority
from Charleston Presbytery; F.J.
and W.A. Hay were its first elders.
By 1846 Rev. Samuel H. Hay preached
on alternate Sundays here and at a
new church in Barnwell; this . . . — — Map (db m8715) HM
Erected in 1798 and rebuilt in 1852, the Beaufort Arsenal was the home of the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, commissioned in 1802, which had its roots in an earlier company organized in 1776 and served valiantly in the Revolutionary War. The BVA was . . . — — Map (db m5664) HM
Built after The Great Fire of 1907 destroyed a frame ca. 1810 house on this site, this structure was consecutively home to hardware enterprises by two prominent Beaufort families for over 100 years. Beaufort 300 — — Map (db m135439) HM
Tabernacle Church was formed by black members of Beaufort Baptist Church after other members evacuated the area because of Federal occupation in 1861. The church's lecture room was used for services during the war. In 1867 the black congregation . . . — — Map (db m9964) HM
This structure housed a cobbler before the Levins operated businesses in it, including a print shop which produced printed materials for Parris Island using modern early 20th century equipment. Beaufort 300 — — Map (db m135456) HM
John Mark Verdier
1759-1826
Builder Of This House
1795-1800
General Lafayette Spoke To The People
Of Beaufort From This Portico
March 18, 1825 — — Map (db m19644) HM
The name Barrel Landing (also spelled Barrell) comes from a nearby docking and landing area on the Okatie River initially used by early settlers of the Okatie community in the period following the Revolutionary War. Farmers and tradesmen used the . . . — — Map (db m15320) HM
(Front text) This house, built in 1930, is typical in materials and methods of construction of those built on the S.C. Sea Islands from the end of the Civil War to the mid-20th century. It was built on land bought after 1865 by William . . . — — Map (db m56892) HM
The Hunting Island Lighthouse guided
mariners along the stretch of the South
Carolina coast for many years. The first
lighthouse, constructed of brick and
completed in 1859, was demolished by
Confederate troops during the early days
of the . . . — — Map (db m105048) HM
People Have Always Gathered Here...
We know from ancient shell middens found on these bluffs that Native American hunter-gatherers inhabited this
site as early as 1564. Like today's residents and visitors, they appreciated the . . . — — Map (db m20319) HM
The ruins that lie before you are the remains of Marion and Richard T. Wilson Jr.'s winter and spring home. The four-story mansion occupied what is now the Wilson Village Green and took approximately five years to construct. Once completed in 1914, . . . — — Map (db m20367) HM
In 1878, the United States built two lighthouses and a lighthouse keeper's home on Parris Island. The 45-foot tall Front Light was located on the southeastern tip of the island. Seen from the boardwalk, this area is the forested promontory to the . . . — — Map (db m21542) HM
Just as this tower is a silent witness to your visit here today, it has watched over Hunting Island since 1875. It is the second lighthouse on the island—the first was destroyed during the Civil War—and this is its second location. . . . — — Map (db m135384) HM
Sandbars may not seem dangerous, but those off the coast of Hunting Island could destroy a ship and put everyone onboard in peril. To guard against that, lightkeepers and their families lived here, making sure this lighthouse warned sailors of . . . — — Map (db m135365) HM
To St. Helena's Church, Beaufort, S.C. Built about 1740. Made a separate church after the revolution. Burned by forest fire Feb. 22, 1886. — — Map (db m19647) HM
Before electricity, batteries or solar panels, lamplight was generated by oil. And a light bright enough to be seen from seventeen miles away needed a lot of oil! The oil that powered the Hunting Island Lighthouse was stored here.
Constructed . . . — — Map (db m135387) HM
Digging a well doesn't work on barrier islands. The shaft can only reach brackish water that's unfit to drink. In fact, there's no reliable natural source of drinkable water on Hunting Island.
To compensate, the lighthouse staff members and their . . . — — Map (db m135390) HM
Children once played in the yard while their parents chopped firewood or hung laundry out to dry. Together, they tended a vegetable garden and gathered eggs from a chicken coop. With its outbuildings and a surrounding picket fence, this was once the . . . — — Map (db m135391) HM
[front text]
One of the first schools for blacks in the South, Penn School, was reorganized as Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School in 1901. As a
result of this change, incorporating principals of education found at both . . . — — Map (db m20294) HM
Near this spot stood Barnet's Tavern, called the Forty Five Mile House, indicating its distance from Charleston. Here was the muster ground of the Eutaw State Volunteers, a company raised in 1833, to support the Ordinance of Nullification. From this . . . — — Map (db m23200) HM
This land, part of Fairlawn Barony and known as Little Landing, was bought in 1767 by Sedgwick Lewis. His daughter Sarah married Keating Simons. They acquired the land in 1774 and are presumed to have built the present plantation house. Tradition . . . — — Map (db m29132) HM
Property was sold by Thomas Pockney in 1795
Structure built in 1796 by Joseph Olman
Purchased by John H. Dosher 1880s
Sold to famous cabinet maker
Edwin S. Smith in the 1960s and
functioned as Smitty’s cabinet shop
Awarded the . . . — — Map (db m242807) HM
The trustees of the College of Charleston laid the foundations of this building on the 21st day of December 1938 Erected by the City of Charleston with the aid of the income from the College Endowment it is dedicated to the physical well-being of . . . — — Map (db m135493) HM
St. Andrew's Parish Church was one of ten Anglican churches established in S.C. by the Church Act of 1706.
The church was built in 1706, expanded in 1723, and restored in 1764 after a fire. It is the only extant colonial cruciform church in . . . — — Map (db m242802) HM
This corner building was constructed shortly after the end of the Civil War under the ownership of Ireland-native Mary Monaghan Molony, widow of John Molony, who purchased the property in 1854. Earlier structures on the site were destroyed in The . . . — — Map (db m242591) HM
Historical records indicate that this three-story single house was constructed between 1800 and 1802 for cabinet maker Philip Moore. Prior to the building's construction, the property served as part of brewer Daniel Bourget's large estate, which was . . . — — Map (db m242594) HM
Rector of nearby St. Andrews Episcopal Church, and owner of Magnolia Plantation before,during, and after the Civil War, he redesigned the plantation's famous
garden, from its original French style of Louis XIV to its present style of English . . . — — Map (db m4977) HM
Eliza Jones (1775-1846) purchased this lot in the aftermath of the Ansonborough fire of 1838. She was the granddaughter of Robert Gibson, a graduate of Oxford University, and a Grand Master Mason, who, according to family legend, played a role in . . . — — Map (db m135489) HM
C.- 1804
This significant single house was built by Benjamin DuPré, a French tailor, sometime after 1803. The entire area was known as “Gadsden’s Green” after Christopher Gadsden who divided this land into six wharf lots and 197 . . . — — Map (db m51826) HM
Planters commonly maintained homes in the city and on their plantations. Joseph Manigault - planter,
buisnessman, slave-owner and legislator - built this elegant townhouse in 1803.
At that time this neighborhood (Wraggborough) was concidered . . . — — Map (db m50967) HM
An outstanding example of the Adam Style of
architecture in plan, interior detail, and decoration.
The house was designed by Gabriel Manigault,
Charleston's most famous amateur architect, for
his brother Joseph Manigault, who acquired the
lot . . . — — Map (db m50832) HM
This three and one-half story Federal style single house set on a raised basement was built in 1807 by Ms. Abigail Noyer on land purchased from Mr. Christen Belser. The Federal style is evidenced by the hipped roof, a main entrance with fanlight . . . — — Map (db m135494) HM
Built c. 1847 by William C. McElheran, this Charleston "single house" became after 1860, part of the C.D. Franke Carriage Factory Complex. The factory, which made cannon carriages for the Confederate Army, remained at this location into the 1890's. . . . — — Map (db m31840) HM
(Front side)
This house, built ca. 1712, is believed to be one of the oldest houses in Charleston. It was built for William Rhett (1666-1723), a merchant, sea captain, militia officer, and speaker of the Commons House of Assembly famous . . . — — Map (db m31847) HM
This two-and-a-half story Charleston Single House is thought to be built by Frederick Wolfe after the fire of 1796, which destroyed much of the State Street area between Broad and Queen Streets. The house was moved back on its original lot at 21 . . . — — Map (db m50513) HM
Erected circa 1760 in the
old section of the city.
A rare surviving example
of its kind containing
4 finely paneled rooms
and other trim which
makes it exceptional
for a house of
its modest size.
Medallion:
Award 1967 . . . — — Map (db m51611) HM
On this site stands one of Charleston’s oldest public facilities in continuous use: the Charleston Market. Earlier markets, dating back to the city’s relocation to the peninsula, ca. 1680, offered meat, fish, and vegetables at different sites. . . . — — Map (db m67430) HM
On this site stands one of Charleston’s oldest public facilities in continuous use: the Charleston Market. Earlier markets, dating back to the city’s relocation to the peninsula, ca. 1680, offered meat, fish, and vegetables at different sites. After . . . — — Map (db m148911) HM
This building, designed by
Gabriel Manigault
and built in 1801 for the
Charleston branch of
The First Bank of the United States,
Stands upon the site which was set
apart as a market place in 1672
and used for that purpose . . . — — Map (db m19539) HM
Here was erected between
1788 and 1804 a public market on
land ceded to City Council by
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Et Al...work of filling in low
ground and creek completed
in 1807; and six blocks of buildings
constucted extending . . . — — Map (db m19178) HM
Originally built in 1753, the building was constructed as South Carolina's first and only colonial Statehouse. From 1756 to 1788, the Statehouse was the seat of the Royal British Governor, the Colonial Assembly and the central meeting place for . . . — — Map (db m47994) HM
Built in 1796 by
Daniel Ravenel,
the Second of
Wantoot Plantation,
as a summer home
replacing an earlier building
destroyed in the great fires of that year.
The property came to
his wife in 1749,
having been owned since 1710 . . . — — Map (db m27512) HM
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America
1980
Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service
United States Department of the . . . — — Map (db m19673) HM
Hibernian Society
Founded March 17, 1801
Met in Corbett's Tavern until construction of this hall dedicated 1841. Long a civic life in disasters as in prosperity. Its presidents alternate Protestant and Catholic. — — Map (db m27475) HM
This site was the home of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. In 1745, Chief Justice of South Carolina Charles Pinckney purchased the property known as Collenton Square. In 1853 Miss Pinckney donated property for a chapel to be built where . . . — — Map (db m19177) HM
The
French Protestant Church
Huguenot
Organized about 1861
First church built in 1867
This building
the third on this site
was erected in 1845
[National Historic Landmark Plaque]:
Huguenot Church
has been . . . — — Map (db m27542) HM
These notable stuccoed brick tenements were constructed as rental property in 1803 by the William Johnson family.
William Johnson, Sr., originally from New York, was a blacksmith and planter revered at his death as a patriot having served in the . . . — — Map (db m27544) HM
Construction having begun in 1797, this building was occupied by the Bank of South Carolina on December 10, 1798, making it one of the oldest bank buildings in the U.S. It served as a bank until 1835. The Charleston Library Society used it . . . — — Map (db m27517) HM
The Old Exchange
Commissioned in 1767
by Act of
The General Assembly of
The British Colony of South Carolina
Completed in 1771
Deeded in 1917
by The United States Congress
to the South Carolina State Society
National Society . . . — — Map (db m241666) HM
The Old Powder Magazine
is the only public building remaining from the era of the Lords Proprietors, the eight English aristocrats who owned Carolina from 1670 to 1719.
Charles Town, as the capital and southernmost English settlement on the . . . — — Map (db m27556) HM
Entered on the National Register
of Historic Places
October 9, 1974
U.S. Custom House
Charleston, South Carolina
Ammi Burnham Young
E. B. White
Architects 1853
This property significantly contributes . . . — — Map (db m19126) HM
At the Northeast
Corner of This Building
William A. Giles
Grand Master
Ancient Free Masons
Laid the Corner Stone
of This Building
November 24th, 1928 — — Map (db m50414) HM
This two-and-one-half-story Adam Style house was
built circa 1800 by Thomas Bennett, Jr., (1781-1865).
Bennett served as intendent of Charleston (1812-1813)
and governor of South Carolina (1820-1822). The frame
structure rests on a raised . . . — — Map (db m50820) HM
The Baker House was constructed in 1912 as the Baker-Craig Sanitarium. This sixty-bed hospital and nursing school was founded by Dr. Archibald E. Baker Sr. and Dr. Lawrence Craig. The Baker House was designed by John D. Newcomer and Ernest V. . . . — — Map (db m51630) HM
Built in 1817 by John Cart, a
"measurer of lumber", this house
is a typical Charleston single house
with western exposure piazzas
extending the length of the house,
upstairs and down. Prior to the
20th century, a body of . . . — — Map (db m53716) HM
circa 1860
This three story late Regency Style Single
House was constructed circa 1860 by prominent
Charleston physician Eli Geddings. In 1825,
Geddings became the first graduate of the
Medical College in Charleston, now known as
the Medical . . . — — Map (db m51657) HM
Built by Benjamin Lucas
a contractor, as his
residence and owned
by his family until
the 1930's. It was
extensively restored
in 1960 by
Richard H. Jenrette. — — Map (db m53640) HM
Built in 1851 by
Hugh P. Cameron,
a crockery merchant, as his residence.
In 1892, David Bentschner,
a clothing merchant,
purchased the home and changed
the interior to Colonial Revival.
The front gate, carrying his initials,
was . . . — — Map (db m53522) HM
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