This law office was constructed by Shepard Kollock Nash in 1936-1937. "Shep" Nash graduated from Sumter High School in 1911 and attended Davidson College. He read law in Sumter and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1917. Nash served in . . . — — Map (db m224570) HM
Battle fought at this site Apr. 9, 1865 Dedicated Saturday Jan. 27, 1979 3 P.M.
Sponsored by Dick Anderson Chapter No. 75 (1896) United Daughters of the Confedercy
Wm. E. Brunson III, noted War Between The States Arms and Records . . . — — Map (db m35569) HM
(Front text) Here on Apr. 9, 1865, the day of Gen. Lee's surrender, was fought one of the last battles of the War between the States. 158 Confederates rallied by Col. Geo. W. Lee stopped, for several hours, the advance of 2700 Union troops . . . — — Map (db m35886) HM
Clara Louise Kellogg, said to be the first American-trained prima donna, was born near here in 1842. Her family later moved to New York, where, at age 14, she began to study voice, making her debut four years later. Miss Kellogg soon became world . . . — — Map (db m28685) HM
Front
This church, organized in 1808 by Rev. George G. McWhorter of the Salem Black River Presbyterian Church, held its first services in a brush arbor near Concord Springs. The next year Gen. Thomas Sumter donated two acres to the . . . — — Map (db m47678) HM
The Elizabeth White House, built about 1854, was for many years the home of Miss White (1893-1976), a Sumter native who was an internationally-acclaimed artist and lifelong patron of the arts. White, who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine . . . — — Map (db m29201) HM
(Front): This church was organized as Shiloh Baptist Church, 1868. The name was changed, 1931. First black Baptist church in town. Located on S. Main St., near Bee St. Rev. Ben Lawson, first pastor, served for thirty-odd years. The second . . . — — Map (db m55961) HM
(Front text) Organized in 1813 with 13 members, this branch of Stateburg's High Hills of Santee Baptist Church (founded before 1772) became an independent congregation on September 24, 1820. It became known as Sumterville Baptist Church, and . . . — — Map (db m27547) HM
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First Presbyterian Church of Sumter organized in 1823 with five charter members. It was originally part of Harmony Presbytery and was an offshoot of Concord Presbyterian Church. The church’s founding preacher was Rev. Isaac . . . — — Map (db m224578) HM
(West Face right)
Thomas Sumter was born
near the Blue Ridge
Mountains in Virginia in 1734.
He fought in the French and
Indian War and also against
the Cherokees in 1761.
(South Face)
Sumter married Mary
Cantey in . . . — — Map (db m27904) HM
Influenced by Bishop Francis Asbury, Richard Bradford gave land and with others built a wooden chapel in 1787, first called Bradford's Meeting House. Here Santee circuit riders preached until 1827 when church was closed and services held for . . . — — Map (db m28505) HM
(Front text) Henry Johnson Maxwell (1837-1906), Union soldier, U.S. postmaster, state senator, and lawyer, lived here from 1874 until his death in 1906. Maxwell, the son of Stephen J. and Thurston Johnson Maxwell, was born free on Edisto . . . — — Map (db m29462) HM
The Henry Lee Scarborough House was built 1908-09 by Scarborough (1866-1929), a leading Sumter County farmer, businessman, and public servant serving as county treasurer (1894-1902), commissioner of public works for six years and clerk of court . . . — — Map (db m29202) HM
A memorial erected by the people of Sumter and dedicated to the need of constant vigilance against humanity's terrible potential for self-destruction. Holocaust The voice of they brothers blood crieth unto me Auschwitz Bergen - Belsen . . . — — Map (db m224572) HM WM
(Front text) Kendall Institute, founded on this site in 1891, was one of the first black schools in Sumter. It was funded by the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The institute was named for Mrs. Julia B. . . . — — Map (db m29386) HM
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Lincoln High School can trace its origins to the establishment of “Lincoln School,” which was built as the first public school in Sumter, S.C. for African American students in 1874. Lincoln High School, which opened in 1937, . . . — — Map (db m224585) HM
Center Monument In remembrance of those who paid the supreme sacrifice that we may remain a free people
Left front pedestal Major General George L. Mabry, Jr. Veterans Memorial Park Dedicated May 28, 1990 Maj. Gen. George L. . . . — — Map (db m55941) HM
Military Post
After the Civil War ended in 1865, a Federal military occupation garrison was located for sometime in this area of Sumter. Known locally as "Yankee Camp," the post contained officers' quarters, barracks, and a guard house. . . . — — Map (db m27832) HM
(Front): In 1866 soon after the Civil War an interracial Methodist organization was formed. They worshiped under a Bush Arbor near the railroad in South Sumter. After a few years they grew discontented with the organization and sought to . . . — — Map (db m55962) HM
Potter's Headquarters Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter, on a raid through this area in the last days of the Civil War, advanced to Sumter after defeating a small Confederate force at Dingle’s Mill on April 9, 1865. The . . . — — Map (db m27831) HM
This tablet marks the site of the Battle of Dingle's Mill fought April 9, 1865 between Potter's Brigade and the Reserve South Carolina Malitia C.S.A.
Erected by Dick Anderson Chapter U.D.C.
(Lower stone marker text)
The . . . — — Map (db m35746) HM
(Front text)
Members of the Catholic Church of
St.Lawrence laid the cornerstone of
the Catholic Church of St. Anne here
in 1909 next to St. Joseph's Academy
(1862-1929). St. Anne's is an early Gothic
revival structure, with a . . . — — Map (db m29212) HM
(Front text)
This church, the first Lutheran congregation in Sumter County, was organized in 1890 as a Home Mission, with six charter members and with Rev. F.W.E. Peschau as its first pastor. The congregation met in area churches, public . . . — — Map (db m27345) HM
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Decr 20
1860 — • —
The
Women of
Sumter District to their
Confederate
Dead
— • —
Erected 1876
by
The Ladies Monumental Assoc.
of Sumter . . . — — Map (db m27740) HM
(Front text) A boarding school for girls located on the northeast corner of Washington and Calhoun Sts. Founded by Laura Fraser Browne and Eliza E. Cooper in 1867. Incorporated in 1888. H. Frank Wilson, president, 1892- 96. (Reverse text) . . . — — Map (db m29406) HM
The men of Sumter County who gave their lives in Vietnam
Terry Lynn Anton; Robert Cain, Jr.; Herbert Hugo Cato, III; Charles Clark; Wyman Byrd Coleman; John Hughie Geddings; Charles Jack Girard; David Nathaniel Green. Jr.; Adherene Louis . . . — — Map (db m55949) HM
Dedicated to the Memory of the men of Sumter County who made the supreme sacrifice 1941 ~ 1945
(Along the Base of the monument)
World War II
Erected by the Grateful Citizens of Sumter County 1949 — — Map (db m55944) WM
(Front text) By Act of 1798, Commissioners were named "To ascertain and fix upon the most central place for the erection of a court house in the District of Sumter", and meanwhile "to fix upon a proper place for the sitting of the court". . . . — — Map (db m27361) HM
In solemn and thankful remembrance of the unselfish and patriotic sacrifice on the part of the brave men of Sumter County who served in the forces of the United States of America in the war against Germany and her allies for the preservation of the . . . — — Map (db m55916) HM
This site of one acre was given in 1837 for use for a public school by
Col. John Blount Miller (1782-1851)
Lieutenant-Colonel in the War of 1812,
a public-spirited citizen and advocate of
education; attorney, orator, writer, founder
. . . — — Map (db m29049) HM
(Front text) Sumter’s Jewish community, dating to 1815, has long been one of the largest and most influential in inland S.C. Mark Solomons, Franklin J. Moses, and Montgomery Moses brought their families to Sumter District from the old and . . . — — Map (db m27488) HM
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Following his discharge from the Confederate Army, John James Britton began buying farm property on the Pocotaligo Swamp in 1864. His grandfather, Henry Britton, came to the Sumter area from Britton’s Neck (Marion County) in . . . — — Map (db m224593) HM
Sumter Hospital was begun 1904 by Drs. S. C. Baker, Walter Cheyne, Archie China, H. M. Stuckey, and was built shortly thereafter nearby. Renamed Tuomey following purchase in 1913 with funds from will of T. J. Tuomey (1842-1897) which specified that . . . — — Map (db m28765) HM
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In 1823 Sumterville Methodists began holding services in the Courthouse. Land was purchased on the outskirts of town and the first church was dedicated in 1827. That church was sold to the Roman Catholics. Two acres of land . . . — — Map (db m224575) HM
Construction of the building to house the Young Men's Christian Association of Sumter began on this site in March, 1911. Mr. E.D. Sompayrac, architect, and Mr. Frank Carr, contractor, would design and construct the massive brick structure. The . . . — — Map (db m148913) HM
