Donated in 1998 to the Town of Johnston in memory of the "Edwards Brothers," V.E. Edwards and E.B. Edwards, by children: Mrs. V.E. Edwards, Jr., Mrs. Helen H. Herlong, Mrs Mary E. Mathis, Mrs. Iza E. Salter, and by John S. Edwards, Sr., son of E.B. . . . — — Map (db m12334) HM
On Calhoun Street, on the right when traveling north.
Johnston, founded in 1868 as Johnston's Station on the Charlotte, Columbia, & Augusta Railroad and also known as Johnson's Turn Out, was named for railroad president William Johnston. It was first incorporated in 1875 and rechartered with its . . . — — Map (db m12338) HM
On Lee Street (State Highway 121) near Academy Street, on the right when traveling north.
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CSA
1861
Our Confederate Dead
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UDC
1865
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1861
"Love of God and love
of country are the
two noblest passions
in the human heart.
A man without a . . . — — Map (db m49454) WM
On Lee St. (State Highway 121) close to Academy Street, on the right when traveling north.
Johnston Schools
Johnston’s first school opened on this site in 1873. The Male and Female Academy was a boarding school, with Rev. Luther Broaddus as its first principal. Alternately a private and public school during its early history, it was . . . — — Map (db m28226) HM
On Calhoun St. (State Highway 23) at Monument Drive, on the right when traveling east on Calhoun St..
A house built for Emsley Lott about 1770, later Lott's Tavern and still later Lott's Post Office, stood here until it was demolished in 1918. Lott soon enlarged his one-room log house to become a tavern on the Columbia road. In 1839 his son John . . . — — Map (db m28225) HM
On Steeple Road, 0.3 miles west of Old Plank Road, on the right when traveling west.
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Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church was organized in 1869 when the African American members of Philippi Baptist Church requested permission to form an independent congregation. Fifty-two
African American members, most of them recently . . . — — Map (db m238684) HM
On Steeple Road, 0.2 miles west of Old Plank Road, on the left when traveling west.
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This church, established in 1814 and a charter member of the Ridge Baptist Association, is among the oldest in Edgefield County. Revs. Thomas DeLoach, Francis Walker, and John Landrum organized the church, with twenty-five white and . . . — — Map (db m238686) HM
