[West Side]
Erected to the memory of Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. Mother of Andrew Jackson seventh President of the United States.
[South Side]
It was her zeal for accomplishment that made handicaps seem to resolve . . . — — Map (db m23792) HM
Franklin Academy
Organized in 1825, was the most widely-known of the four schools that occupied this site. Henry Connelly was its first principal. J. Marion Sims who later achieved world fame as a surgeon was one of its pupils. The building of . . . — — Map (db m23836) HM
Kilburnie was built in the late Federal style by dentist Joseph Lee in 1826 on N. White St. in Lancaster, SC. Kilburnie's second owner Ann B. Crawford transformed the house into a Greek revival mansion in 1834, giving it the style of Robert Mills' . . . — — Map (db m256218) HM
This late Federal-style house blending elements of the Greek-revival style with Victorian-era modifications was built by local dentist Joseph Lee between 1826 and 1834. Thought to be the oldest residence in the town of Lancaster, Kilburnie was . . . — — Map (db m23795) HM
[Marker Front]:
Lancaster, founded in 1798, was first called Lancaster Court House and later known as Lancasterville. The seat of Lancaster District from 1800 to 1868, it has been the seat of Lancaster County since then. The town and . . . — — Map (db m286355) HM
[Front]:
The Lancaster & Chester Railway, founded in 1896, was originally the Cheraw & Chester Railroad, chartered in 1873. The C&C, which never finished its route, was sold to Col. Leroy Springs (1861-1931) for $25,000 and renamed the . . . — — Map (db m23841) HM
[East Side]
1861-1865
Worthy, the Confederate soldier to be hallowed and held in tender remembrance Worthy, the fadeless fame which Lancaster's soldiers won in defending the honor of the South, the rights of the States, the liberties . . . — — Map (db m23832) HM
The Lancaster Commissioners of the Poor were established in 1791 to provide support for the orphaned, aged, and indigent. In 1867 Dr. J. Marton Sims donated $1,000 in gold to the Commission. They used the funds to improve and expand the county . . . — — Map (db m252278) HM
Dedicated to the officers of this county who gave their lives in the line of duty * B. Frank Sowell Lancaster Police 1937 * Walter T. Bell Highway Patrol 1939 * Curtis J Pope Constable 1943 * Coleman B. McAteer Constable 1947 * Roy D Hardin . . . — — Map (db m49360) HM
Andrew Jackson
1767-1845
Seventh President of the United States and Hero of the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson was born in Waxhaw's section of Lancaster County and is buried at the Hermitage, in Tennessee.
J. . . . — — Map (db m253526) HM
[Marker Front]:
Located on this site, Lancaster Normal and Industrial Institute for black students was incorporated in 1905; M. D. Lee was president and J. G. McIlwain chairman of the board. By 1912, the school was offering both elementary . . . — — Map (db m23834) HM
This congregation was organized May 5, 1835. Its first minister was James H. Thornwell, who later headed SC College in Columbia. The Gothic Revival building was dedicated 1862 and entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The . . . — — Map (db m23837) HM
The original part of this house was built by Robert W. Gill soon after he purchased the lot in 1828. About thirty years later, it was enlarged by Samuel B. Massey. Local textile manufacturer and banker Col. Leroy Springs remodeled the house . . . — — Map (db m23839) HM
Early Memorialization
In the decades after the Revolution, the woodland surrounding the battlefield was gradually converted to farm fields and pasture. In 1845, James A. Witherspoon led an effort to raise money for a grave monument and . . . — — Map (db m71573) HM
The Courthouse Lancaster County
Built in 1825-1828. Designed by Robert Mills of Charleston, South Carolina, America's first native born, professionally trained architect, State Civil and Military Engineer and designer of the Washington . . . — — Map (db m233044) HM
(front)
The Jail
This is the "gaol" that Willis W. Alsobrook contracted to build for Lancaster District "…agreeable to the plans and specifications signed by Robert Mills…." In 1868 Lancaster District became Lancaster County . . . — — Map (db m232463) HM
Built by Colonel Leroy Springs in 1905 of red brick stretcher and common bond brick, this block has housed many of Lancaster's leading businesses. In 1936, fire destroyed the southern end of the block which included the Hotel Royale and Lancaster . . . — — Map (db m95066) HM
Honoring
Thomas H. Davis
Site where his forty year selection, (1880), of okra led to the nationally known variety of "Clemson Spineless Okra" 1939 — — Map (db m49358) HM
About 3 miles W. is Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, organized 1755, first church in upper South Carolina. President Andrew Jackson, born nearby, was baptized there. His father lies in the churchyard with other early settlers of the Waxhaws and many . . . — — Map (db m23790) HM
About 5 miles N. is Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, organized 1755, first church in upper South Carolina. President Andrew Jackson, born nearby, was baptized there. His father lies in the churchyard with other early settlers of the Waxhaw’s and many . . . — — Map (db m255428) HM
[Marker Front]
The first church in upper So. Car. This 4½ acre tract was deeded to the congregation by Robert Miller school teacher and minister, Mar.9, 1758. The first pastor was Rev. Wm. Richardson, 1759-1771. The earliest . . . — — Map (db m121920) HM
A ferry nearby crossed the Catawba River between Lancaster County and York County for more than 30 years and was the last state-run ferry in S.C. It was built in 1927-28 by William N. Ashe (1862-1932), owner of the nearby Ashe Brick Company to . . . — — Map (db m252274) HM
This church, organized July 4, 1776 by Rev. George Pope, a native of Virginia, held its first meetings in a brush arbor on this site and was known as the Upper Fork of Lynches Creek until it was renamed Flat Creek Baptist Church in 1881. The first . . . — — Map (db m23911) HM
Originally called Russell Place for the Irish immigrant William Russell who settled near here on a branch of Beaver Creek in 1768. General William Tecumseh Sherman passed through Russell Place in 1865 on his way to North Carolina. In 1871 James . . . — — Map (db m51641) HM
Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States, grew up on this site during the American Revolution.
His Scotch-Irish Presbyterian upbringing in this Waxhaws backcountry settlement helped shape his character, his military success and his . . . — — Map (db m95423) HM
Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born. — — Map (db m24035) HM
Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born. — — Map (db m230093) HM
[Carving Side]
"I was born in So Carolina, as I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about one mile from the Carolina Road X of the Waxhaw Creek" Andrew Jackson to J.H. Witherspoon, August 11, 1824.
Jackson . . . — — Map (db m23781) HM
One of the last refinements in the N.C.-S.C. boundary was marked with a stone inscribed "1813" and located about ½ mile SE of here. This adjustment was made because of uncertainty in location of the Salisbury Road which had served as . . . — — Map (db m23789) HM
Mother of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States; was born ca. 1737 in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, a daughter of Francis Cyrus Hobart Hutchinson and Margaret Lisle Hutchinson, linen weavers and drapers; married ca. 1760 . . . — — Map (db m253552) HM
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians called their worship places Meeting Houses to emphasize that the structure is a building and that the church is the body of believers. The community came to the Meeting House not only to worship, but also for recreation, . . . — — Map (db m23768) HM
Andrew Jackson, champion of the common, is a larger-than-life hero. He has been memorialized throughout American history. The idea of commemorating Jackson with a statue in the land of his birth was conceived by Perry Belle Hough of the Lancaster . . . — — Map (db m23775) HM
Andrew Jackson, champion of the "common man," has been remembered throughout American History.
A Jackson statue in the land of his birth was imagined by Perry Belle Hough of the Lancaster Historic Commission. The idea came to her during a visit . . . — — Map (db m253632) HM
On the Catawba Path near here King Hagler, Chief of the Catawba Nation (1750-1763), was slain on August 30, 1763, by a raiding band of northern Indian braves as he journeyed from the Waxhaws Settlement on Cane Creek to a Catawba town on Twelve Mile . . . — — Map (db m23761) HM
Near this site was the home of Major Robert Crawford, where President George Washington spent his last night in South Carolina on his Southern tour, May 27, 1791. Here Washington was met by a delegation of the Chiefs of the Catawba Nation, who set . . . — — Map (db m23763) HM
When Andrew Jackson was a boy, he attended log-cabin schools much like this replica.
In this backcountry region of devout, hard working Scotch-Irish immigrants, most children learned enough at local "common" schools to read the Bible and run . . . — — Map (db m23771) HM
Governor of South Carolina from 1828 until 1830, Miller was born near here May 8, 1787, the son of Charles and Margaret White Miller. He served in the US House of Representatives (1822-1828), and US Senate (1831-1833). He died March 8, 1838 in . . . — — Map (db m23785) HM
This statue of the young Andrew Jackson is a gift to the children of South Carolina by the sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington. Children of the elementary schools throughout the state contributed their nickel and dimes for the base.
"We, the . . . — — Map (db m23779) HM
The Van Wyck passenger wait station/depot was originally built by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad shortly after the 1916 flood to replace the one that washed away. It was located on the town side of the tracks at the end of the main street. At that . . . — — Map (db m299502) HM
Andrew Jackson State Park honors the memory of the seventh president of the United States, who spent his boyhood here in the Waxhaws area. A museum tells the story of Jackson's experiences and life in the South Carolina backcountry from his birth . . . — — Map (db m95428) HM
This 360-acre park was established to honor the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
The museum tells the story of Jackson's boyhood experiences during the Revolutionary War and highlights life in the South Carolina . . . — — Map (db m95425) HM
World War I
Cpl. Elmer E. Butler •
Pvt. Fred Rochester •
Pvt. J. W. Vance Smith
World War II
Cpl. Abraham Heatherly •
Pvt. William E. Medford •
Pvt. James D. Fisher •
Robert Charles Evans S-I/C •
Tech. Sgt. Joseph C. Stevens • . . . — — Map (db m54557) WM
This bridge dedicated
to
Col. William Farr
(1748-1794)
Revolutionary War hero
(Battles of Cowpens, Fishdam, Blackstock,
Musgrove Mills and others)
1st Sheriff of Union County
1st Union Co. Rep. to the S.C. House (1791-1794) . . . — — Map (db m14395) HM
This battle of the Revolution took
place on William Blackstock’s
plantation, 3 miles N. on the south
side of the Tyger River, November 20,
1780. Gen. Thomas Sumter
commanded the American patriots who
repulsed Lt. Col. Banastre
Tarleton’s . . . — — Map (db m11111) HM
[Front]:
A post office was established in 1809 at Cross Keys, S.C. In 1812-1814, Barrum Bobo erected this house at the intersection of the Piedmont Stage Road and the Old Buncombe Road. During the ante-bellum period, it was the center of . . . — — Map (db m13390) HM
This church was founded in 1784 by Rev. John Webb and John Cole, with Barnett Putman and William Wilbanks, Sr. as its first deacons. It was first called "the Church of Christ on Tyger River" and renamed Padgett Creek Baptist Church by 1800. The . . . — — Map (db m13428) HM
[Front]:
On April 20, 1861, only days after the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, scientist and aeronaut T.S.C. Lowe (1832-1913) landed the Enterprise, a large gas balloon, on a nearby farm. Lowe was on a test flight in preparation . . . — — Map (db m23919) HM
Four Acres of Land Deeded to
the Trustees of Flat Rock
Methodist Episcopal Church
Baxter Mosley, Edmond Hames
Thomas Hames, Charles Hames
and Coleman Fowler, on May 10, 1802
by Israel Fowler
Recorded December 3, 1839 — — Map (db m58568) HM
[West Side]
C.S.A.
1861-1865
To the Confederate
dead of Union District
Comrades Confederate Soldiers
[South Side]
From North to South
From East to West
Their ashes scattered lie
But in the regions of
the . . . — — Map (db m59078) HM
Front Dedicated to those who served World War I Apr. 6, 1917 ~ Nov. 11, 1918 Right Side Dedicated to those who served World War II Dec. 7, 1941 ~ Dec. 31, 1946 Back Dedicated to those who served Korea June 27, 1950 ~ Jan. 31, . . . — — Map (db m59073) WM
Spot Where Prof. T. S. C. Lowe famed aeronaut landed Apr. 20, 1861 in Union County, S. C.
After Balloon Flight from Cincinnati, Ohio
800 miles in nine hours
Died 1913 at Pasadena Calif. — — Map (db m15394) HM
With construction beginning in 1893, Lockhart Mill was completed in 1894 under the leadership of John C. Carey with the help of investments from Charleston-area entrepreneurs, including Seth Milliken. As president of the mill, Carey expanded the . . . — — Map (db m237800) HM
The town of Lockhart was founded with the establishment of the first Lockhart Mill, completed in 1894. A booming, turn-of-the-century textile industry led to swift growth at the mill and in the town, which had a bustling population of 1,400 by . . . — — Map (db m237799) HM
This is the old Quaker Cemetery, marking the site of land conveyed by David Smith in October 1778. To Armel Fincher, John Clark, Ralph Hunt, John Neaderman, trustees appointed by the people called Quakers, members of the meeting on Padgetts Creek, . . . — — Map (db m48588) HM
We all leave our mark on this world. Look closely at the bricks in this wall and you may find fingerprints. People enslaved on this plantation likely made these bricks by hand in the mid-1800s. They carried them to this spot where a skilled . . . — — Map (db m284895) HM
[Front Side]:
This Greek Revival house was built ca. 1857 for Benjamin Dudley Culp (1821-1885) and his wife Cornelia Meng Culp (1830-1888). Culp, a Union merchant, owned stores on Main Street with partners J.T. Hill and H.L. Goss from . . . — — Map (db m13542) HM
Marker Front:
This parish was established in 1855 with the Rev. John DeWitt McCollough (1822-1902) as its first rector. This Gothic Revival church, consecrated in 1859 and called “probably the most exquisite gem of a Church in our . . . — — Map (db m30429) HM
Fair Forest Plantation. Fair Forest, named for nearby Fair Forest Creek, was the plantation of Col. Thomas Fletchall (d.1789), prominent militia officer before the Revolution and Loyalist during it. Captured in 1775 and briefly jailed, . . . — — Map (db m13394) HM
Led by Philip Mulkey, thirteen converts of the Great Awakening movement traveled from N.C. to S.C. in 1759, settled on the Broad River, and organized a Baptist congregation, the oldest in the upcountry. Three years later, they moved to what is . . . — — Map (db m13442) HM
1.5 miles SW stood the original Fairforest Baptist Church. The members, led by the Reverend Philip Mulkey, came from North Carolina to Broad River about 1759. In 1762, the church moved to Fairforest where, as the first Baptist church in the up . . . — — Map (db m13393) HM
The evidence of slavery and tenant farming at Rose Hill has been obscured by the trees, but it has not been erased from the history of the land. From the 1800s into the 1900s, enslaved people—and later tenant farmers—grew cotton here. The white . . . — — Map (db m284801) HM
During two separate terms as a member of the South Carolina State Highways and Public Transportation Commission Representing the 16th Highway District, 1975 ~ 1979 and 1983 ~ 1987, and as Chairman of the Commission 1978 ~ 1979, Mr. Fendley rendered . . . — — Map (db m54562) HM
Ancestral Cemetery of
the Gist Family
Among those buried here are
the secession Governor of
South Carolina
William H. Gist
Aug. 2, 1805 - Sept. 30, 1874
Mary Rice Gist
His second wife
Also
Col. William M. Gist C.S.A. . . . — — Map (db m13468) HM
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate
States of America
Dined in this House,
The former home of
Brigadier General
William H. Wallace
April 28, 1865 — — Map (db m13510) HM
Lynching in America
During the Reconstruction period that followed emancipation in 1865, thousands of Black people were lynched by white people intent on maintaining racial hierarchy. Federal officials ended Reconstruction in 1877 when they . . . — — Map (db m196451) HM
One mile east of this point, built by the pioneers of
Union County, was one of the several stockades used as refuges during the Cherokee War, 1759-1761. It was probably named for James Otterson, an early settler on Tyger River. — — Map (db m11110) HM
(Front)
Poplar Grove School opened in 1927 as a four-classroom school for African American students in Union Co. An extra classroom was added in 1941. In the mid-1960s the original four classrooms were removed and the remaining large . . . — — Map (db m159621) HM
[Front]:
This cemetery, the oldest in Union, was established ca. 1817 and sometimes called the "village cemetery." In 1818 a Presbyterian "union" church used by other denominations as well moved here from a 1783 site about 2 mi. E. . . . — — Map (db m81836) HM
Reconstruction Era Lynchings in Union County
After the Civil War, Black Americans were emancipated after more than two centuries of chattel slavery. Formerly enslaved people purchased land, built churches and schools, and eligible Black men . . . — — Map (db m196452) HM
Erected in 1828-32 by William Henry Gist (1807-1874), lawyer, planter, legislator, and Secessionist Governor of South Carolina, Rose Hill was named for its landscaped rose garden. Its fanlights, carved doors and spiral staircases are noteworthy. The . . . — — Map (db m13498) HM
(Front)
Sims High School, located here from 1956 to 1970, replaced a 1927 school on Union Boulevard, which in 1929 had become the first state-accredited high school for African-American students in the upstate. It was named for Rev. A.A. . . . — — Map (db m159618) HM
Sims High School stood here from 1927 until the early 1970's and was the first black high school in Union County. It was named for its founder, Rev. A. A. Sims (1872-1965), who was its first principal 1927-1951. It included grades 6-11 until 1949 . . . — — Map (db m19868) HM
Side A A "union" church, one founded as a Presbyterian congregation but also used by other denominations, stood here from ca. 1783 to ca. 1819. The church was founded ca. 1765 at Brown's Creek, 2 or 3 mi. NE. It met there in two successive log . . . — — Map (db m13541) HM
(Front)
This was the home of Thomas N. Dawkins (1807-1870) and his second wife Mary Poulton Dawkins (1820-1906). Dawkins, a lawyer, state representative, and judge, married Poulton, a native of London, in 1845. They named this house . . . — — Map (db m159615) HM
Marker Front:
Union Community Hospital served the black community of Union and nearby areas from 1932 to 1975. Built as a house ca. 1915, it was converted into a hospital by Dr. L. W. Long in 1932 with the support of several local churches. . . . — — Map (db m258677) HM
[East Side]:
In Memory of the
Confederate Soldiers
of Union County,
South Carolina.
[North Side]:
Truth, courage,
and patriotism
endure forever.
[South Side]:
These were men who gave
their live and . . . — — Map (db m13536) HM
[Front]:
The S. C. Board of Public Works had at least fourteen public buildings under contract in 1822-23, when Robert Mills, Acting Commissioner of the board, rejected a partially built jail of inferior brick before proceeding with this . . . — — Map (db m11109) HM
In 1871, one of the worst waves of white supremacist violence in S.C. history unfolded in Union County. During two raids in Jan. and Feb. of that year, twelve Black men were forcibly taken from this jail by the Ku Klux Klan while awaiting trial. . . . — — Map (db m196465) HM
In memory
of those in
Union County who
gave their lives
in defense of
our country during
World War I
World War II
Korean Conflict
Vietnam War. — — Map (db m13533) WM
North Face
Dedicated to those who served on our United States Navy West Face Dedicated to those who served on our United States Air Force South Face Dedicated to those who served on our United States Marines East . . . — — Map (db m55704) HM
This monument is dedicated to the many generations of employees of Union Mill. This mill provided a livelihood for many families and contributed greatly to the growth of Union County for over 100 years. During the height of the textile revolution, . . . — — Map (db m13544) HM
Through a war that formed this country and a war that divided it, the McElwee-Oates family owned land and worked in this area.
William McElwee, a Scotch-Irish immigrant, settled here around 1765. Neither a wealthy plantation owner nor a poor . . . — — Map (db m285882) HM
This large loom is 150-200 years old and presents a mystery: why was such valuable equipment abandoned in pieces at a stagecoach station?
We know that while some weavers kept shops, others traveled from farmstead to farmstead, setting up . . . — — Map (db m50856) HM
Wood was the most readily accessible material to an 1800s South Carolina farmer. Many items now made from metal were originally made of wood - even locks and keys - because metal was expensive and wood was free. Due to its wide availability and . . . — — Map (db m285881) HM
Imagine hundreds of men, dressed more or less alike, heart still pounding from the fever of battle, milling around this hillside as the sun sets. Whigs and Tories both sleep on wet, cold ground, amid the groans of wounded and dying men.
The rebel . . . — — Map (db m17657) HM
These things are ominous - these are the damned yelling boys! Abraham DePeyster, New York loyalist officer British war drums bellowed the alarm as 120 battle-hardened veterans in red took their places in line here. They were the first to . . . — — Map (db m252530) HM
In these woods, dazed Tories hurriedly buried their fallen comrades, using only logs and rocks. Dr. Uzal Johnson of the New Jersey provincials spent the night with the several hundred men with wounds, tending friend and foe alike. At dawn, a long . . . — — Map (db m252536) HM
While every farmer needed basic blacksmithing skills to make or mend small simple objects like horseshoes and nails, only the village smithy had the expertise to craft substantial articles such as kitchen and farm tools, blades and hinges. . . . — — Map (db m50863) HM
When we encounter the enemy, don't wait for a word of command. Let each of you be your own officer, and do the very best you can....If in the woods, shelter yourselves and give them Indian play; advance from tree to tree...and killing and . . . — — Map (db m17526) HM
This distinguished race of men are more savage than the Indians,and possess every one of their vices, but not one of their virtues. I have known...these fellows (to) travel 200 miles through the woods never keeping any road or path, guided by the . . . — — Map (db m252535) HM
Hard pressed on every side, Ferguson's men fell back to their camp, which lay in the saddle of the ridge you see just ahead. As some Tories tried to surrender, bullets continued to pour into their ranks from all directions. Too late, they saw they . . . — — Map (db m125174) HM
Everyone knew Colonel Sevier's rugged frontiersmen for their long-rifle marksmanship-and their touchy eagerness for a brawl. But no experienced military man of that day expected men armed only with hunting weapons to be able to face and defeat real . . . — — Map (db m125170) HM
To honor Col. Asbury Coward President, Kings Mountain Centennial Association, 1880. Acknowledged, inspirational force in perpetuating the glory and importance of the Battle of Kings Mountain Erected by Kings Mountain Chapter Daughters of the . . . — — Map (db m241599) HM
