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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPZP_harriet-barber-house_Hopkins-SC.html
The Harriet Barber House, the home of Reverend Samuel Barber and his wife Harriet McPherson Barber, is significant for its association with the South Carolina Land Commission during the late nineteenth century. Samuel Barber purchased a 42.5 acre …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPPN_minervaville_Hopkins-SC.html
Minervaville, between Cabin Branch and Cedar Creek, was an early 19th-century community. Named after the Minerva Academy, founded in 1802 with William J. Bingham as its headmaster, Minervaville appears on Robert Mills's Atlas of S.C. (1825). It wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPHI_harriet-barber-house_Hopkins-SC.html
(Front text)In 1872 Samuel Barber (d. 1891) and his wife Harriet (d. 1899), both former slaves, bought 42 1/2 acres here from the S.C. Land Commission, established in 1869 to give freedmen and freedwomen the opportunity to own land. Barber, a well…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP42_hopkins_Hopkins-SC.html
(Front text) This rural community grew up around the plantation of John Hopkins (1739-1775). Hopkins, a native of Virginia, settled here in 1764. A surveyor and planter, he was later a delegate to the First Provincial Congress of 1775. Between 183…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOZD_eastover_Eastover-SC.html
(Front text) Eastover, so named for being "east and over" from Columbia, was a small rural community of the mid-19th century that grew into a town after the Wilmington, Columbia, & Augusta RR completed its line through this area in 1871. The town,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQF_south-carolina-state-hospital_Columbia-SC.html
Institution authorized 1821 by General Assembly, mainly through the work of two members, Samuel Farrow and William Crafts, Jr. The original building, on right, designed by Robert Mills, shows a pioneer grasp of the ideas of humanitarian treatment.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4Z_south-carolina-state-hospital-mills-building_Columbia-SC.html
(Upper Plaque)Original BuildingSouth Carolina State HospitalDesigned by Robert Mills150 YearsHealing With Concern1822 - 1972South Carolina Department Of Mental Health
(Lower Left Medallion)The National Register of Historic Places South Carolin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO2L_heidt-russell-house-edwin-r-russell_Columbia-SC.html
Heidt - Russell HouseThis house, with Greek Revival and Italianate architectural influences, was built about 1879 by William J. Heidt, builder and contractor who managed Heidlinger's Steam Bakery. The Heidts lived here until 1912. Mary E. Russell,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO2I_modjeska-simkins-house_Columbia-SC.html
(Front text) This house was for sixty years the home of Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992), social reformer and civil rights activist. A Columbia native, she was educated at Benedict College, then taught high school. Director of Negro Work for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO23_st-paul-church-oak-grove_Irmo-SC.html
St. Paul ChurchOne of the first black churches after the Civil War, St. Paul AME began as Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church. Local tradition says that the original small congregation worshipped in the 1850s in the "Bush Arbor;" later i…