(Front)
This house, originally 14 mi. SE on U.S. Hwy. 178 in the Epworth community, was the birthplace of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984), Baptist minister, college president, author, and civil rights pioneer. Mays was the eighth child of Hezekiah . . . — — Map (db m238587) HM
South Side:
At the request of Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Maxwell, major benefactors, the orphanage was named in memory of their daughter, who died at the age of seven.
Connie Maxwell Orphanage, a ministry of the South . . . — — Map (db m16422) HM
Aug 1, 1894 - Mar 28, 1984
A Son of Former Slaves
Born and Reared in Greenwood's Epworth Community
President of Morehouse College, 1940-1967
Mentor and Eulogist for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Advisor to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and . . . — — Map (db m238594) HM
The first born son and seventh child of Benjamin and Elsie Goodman Sanders was born in Allendale, S.C. near Appleton in Barnwell County. The son of a farmer with no school in his community, he attended a one-room one-teacher school that housed . . . — — Map (db m11631) HM
Emerald Farm, 'a very special place,' is part of an original 450-acre working farm dating from the late 1800s. In keeping with its agricultural heritage, Emerald Farm continues to raise livestock, harvest hay, pecans, herbs and fruit on a small . . . — — Map (db m16531) HM
This young English Jew settled near Coronaca in 1774, representing Ninety Six District in the provincial congresses of 1775-1776, and died in defense of his adopted home on Aug. 1, 1776. He was the first South Carolinian of his faith to hold an . . . — — Map (db m11117) HM
The youngest of eight children and born to parents who were both ex-slaves, Dr. Benjamin Mays went on to become a distinguished minister, educator, scholar, social activist, advisor to three presidents, mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and . . . — — Map (db m238602) HM
South Side:
Our
Confederate
Soldiers
East Side:
1861 - 1865
Patriots
Who animated by the same faith, actuated by the same love of country, beset with the same trials and dangers, enduring with the same fortitude and . . . — — Map (db m16333) HM
First:
In memorial to Daniel W. Urquhart WWII Navy Veteran Original Crew member of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV31) Organizer and life member of Greenwood DAV Chapter 42 Organizer Newberry DAV chapter 60 Vice Commander District 3 CFW Chapter 8131 . . . — — Map (db m104012) WM
Dedicated
to All Veterans
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To the gallant men and
women who served our
country with honor during
peacetime and war
We Shall Not Forget — — Map (db m16330) HM
Joseph W. Butler James A. Lyda
Charles B. Harris Manning Holsonback
Travis E. Gambrell Jesse C. Motes
Dallas N. Yeargin Fred G. Lyda
Grady H. Canup William B. Sizemore
William H. Walters
Erected by the employees and management of . . . — — Map (db m238575) WM
December 7, 1821 - March 29, 1885
Teacher, Historian, Physician
Born and reared near this spot, John Henry Logan first practiced medicine and taught school in this region before publishing in 1859 his History of Upper South Carolina. He . . . — — Map (db m73346) HM
Physician, naturalist, versatile intellect, agricultural leader, president of Abbeville District Medical Society, 1835. Friend of Agassiz, Audubon and other major scientists, by his own advanced thinking, he outlined a theory of serial evolution . . . — — Map (db m11369) HM
Louis Booker Wright (1899-1984), scholar of American colonial history and Elizabethan culture, was born in the Phoenix community and spent his early years at Maxwellton near this site. A prolific author, he was educated at Wofford College and . . . — — Map (db m16425) HM
Lynching in America
Between 1865 and 1950, white mobs lynched over 6,500 Black people across the U.S. Following the Civil War, white Southerners fiercely resisted equal rights for Black Americans and sought to uphold an ideology of white . . . — — Map (db m238729) HM
Made
316 feet wide by the City and the
S.C. Highway Department after
moving the C.&W.C. Railways Depot
facilities from this plot in,
1949
Paul B. Ellis, Mayor
J.J. Rauch, City Manager
Councilmen
R.C. Herman, J.E. . . . — — Map (db m16345) HM
On this spot December 9, 1921
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Supreme Commander
of the Allied Armies in 1918
expressed to the
people of South Carolina
his appreciation and that of France
for the aid by which the enemy
was checked and . . . — — Map (db m70120) HM
West Side:
Forever Honour'd Forever Mourn'd
This tablet is reverently dedicated to the memory of
Thomas L. Hitt
Carl Henry Holder
who gave their lives for their country in the Korean Conflict
South Side:
Erected . . . — — Map (db m16328) WM
Sponsored by
the Greenwood Beautification
Commission with contributions
from individual, businesses,
civic groups and city funds
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Dedicated September 18, 1864
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Beautification Commission
Mrs. George A. Byrd, . . . — — Map (db m19456) HM
[Marker Front]:
This church, originally known as Rocky Creek Presbyterian Church, was founded in 1770 by ministers sent to upper S.C. from the Synods of New York and Philadelphia. The first church here, a frame structure, was replaced in . . . — — Map (db m11115) HM
Not until each loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the pattern
And explain the reason why...
The dark threads are as needful
In the weaver's skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver...
For the . . . — — Map (db m80435) HM
May the 100 Yoshino Cherry trees planted here and at the Greenwood County Civic Center always grow as a symbol of our friendship and commitment to our new home.
Presented in commemoration of the grand opening of
Fuji Photo Film, Inc. . . . — — Map (db m16332) HM
North Side:
Erected November 11, 1929
by the Greenwood Post No. 20
of the American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary and the
Citizens of Greenwood County
in honor of the brave men who
sacrificed their lives so
that liberty and . . . — — Map (db m80436) WM
