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Located in the center of Historic Pendleton (1790), the building now housing the Pendleton District Commission was constructed in 1850 as a general store for Jesse Lewis. The business first came into the Hunter family in 1870 when it became "Hunte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6XS_sandy-springs-camp-ground-confederate-muster-ground_Pendleton-SC.html
Sandy Springs Camp Ground: This Methodist camp ground named for the large spring nearby, dates to 1828, when a fifteen-acre site was purchased from Sampson Pope for $45. Early meetings were under a brush arbor until a central wooden shelter and ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67M_richard-w-simpson_Pendleton-SC.html
Born in 1840, Colonel Simpson, lawyer, farmer, and legislator, drafted and executed Thomas Green Clemson's will, establishing Clemson Agricultural College in 1889. Simpson was first president of the college's board of trustees and once owned land …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67L_thomas-green-clemson_Pendleton-SC.html
A native Philadelphian and leading agriculturist, Mr. Clemson was U.S. charge d'affaires to Belgium, U.S. Superintendent of Agriculture, and the 1868 president of Pendleton Farmers Society. He married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, Anna, and lat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67K_clement-hoffman-stevens_Pendleton-SC.html
[Front]:Confederate Brig. Gen. Clement H. Stevens (1821-1864) is buried nearby in the Bee family plot. Born in Connecticut, Stevens moved to S.C. after his father's death in 1836. In 1861 he invented the first ironclad battery, which was built on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM66P_african-american-school-site_Pendleton-SC.html
The one-room frame public school organized shortly after the Civil War, housed 76 students and 1 teacher by 1870. The school term lasted 1 month and 10 days. Jane Harris Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley centers for working girls, attended t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM66O_printer-john-miller_Pendleton-SC.html
This London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina. Later in Pendleton he founded Miller's Weekly Messenger the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65S_pendleton_Pendleton-SC.html
On April 8, 1790, the Justices of the Peace for Pendleton County purchased this land to establish the courthouse town of Pendleton. Once Cherokee Indian land, the town became the judicial, social and commercial center for what now are Anderson, Oc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM652_farmers-hall_Pendleton-SC.html
Built 1826-1828Home ofPendleton Farmers Society.Organized 1815.Within this hallThomas Green Clemson,one of the Society's presidents,first discussed with its membersthe plans for the funding ofClemson College
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM651_woodburn-plantation_Pendleton-SC.html
Some 200 yards west of here stands Woodburn, built by S.C. Lieutenant Governor Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by 1832. Dr. John B. Adger, Presbyterian minister to Armenia, bought Woodburn in 1852; in 1881 Augustine T. Smythe began a model stock farm …
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