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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX8_florence-national-cemetery_Florence-SC.html
The Florence National Cemetery established in 1865 is this day re-dedicated to the memory of all the patriotic men and women who answered their country's call to service their inspiring contribution will help preserve in the hearts and live…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX4_civil-war-union-burials_Florence-SC.html
(Front):One each side of this marker lie the remains of approximately 2300 Union soldiers who died as prisoners in the Florence Prison Stockade, between September 1864 and February 1865. The Stockade was located across Cemetery Street on Stockade …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX3_florence-stockade-monument_Florence-SC.html
This boulder was placed here by the United Daughters of the Confederacy ofFlorence, S.C. January 27, 1947
To record the fact that directly south of this spotwas situated a stockade where 6,500 Federal prisoners were confined 1864 ~ 1865 and
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI7_andrew-hunter_Florence-SC.html
Side A Andrew Hunter (d. 1823), planter, state representative, and county official, is buried in the Hunter family cemetery about 400 ft. south. During the American Revolution he ran a grist mill several miles south on High Hill Creek, supplying m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI2_williamsons-bridge_Florence-SC.html
Williamson's Bridge was built over Black Creek by 1771. In 1780 a part of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion's S.C. militia brigade - the "Pee Dee Regiment" or "Cheraws Militia" under Lt. Col. Lamuel Benton (1754-1818) - clashed with Loyalists here. Benton…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPG0_wilson-school-wilson-high-school_Florence-SC.html
Wilson School Wilson School, later Wilson High School, was the first public school in Florence, and stood here from 1866 to 1906. At first a private school for black children, it was established by the New England Branch of the Freedmen's Union Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFZ_american-legion-post-1-2nd-lieutenant-fred-h-sexton_Florence-SC.html
American Legion Post #1 This post, organized in May 1919 and chartered by national headquarters in June 1919, was the first American Legion post in S.C. Florence County veterans J.D. Smyser, R.B. Fulton, and N.S. Lachicotte represented S.C. at the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFY_pisgah-methodist-church_Florence-SC.html
Side A This church, founded in 1806 in what was Darlington District until Florence County was founded in 1888, grew out of an early Methodist "Society." Rev. Thomas Humphries (d. 1820), who served this and other area circuits, conducted the first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFX_florence-depot-1852-wilmington-manchester-rr_Florence-SC.html
Florence Depot The original depot named Florence was built here in 1852, where the Wilmington & Manchester RR crossed present-day Hoffmeyer Rd. It was named for Florence Harllee (1848-1927), daughter of the railroad's president, William W. Harllee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFW_ebenezer-church_Florence-SC.html
Side A In January of 1778 Ebenezer Baptist Church was constituted by pioneer minister Evan Pugh and Richard Furman, for whom Furman University is named. Admitted to the Charleston Baptist Association in 1778, the church was incorporated in 1791 as…