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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEFJ_college-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street, originally named Medium Street and part of the original 1786 Columbia Plan, bisected the area which was to be the campus of South Carolina College. The college, established in 1801 by an act of the General Assembly, later became the U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEFI_richland-street_Columbia-SC.html
One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan. Richland Street was probably named after Richland County, which had been so designated by an act of the General Assembly in 1785. By November 1786, two town commissioners, Alexander Gillon and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEFF_laurel-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street probably takes its name from the cherry laurel (Laurocerasus caroliniana) and the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), both of which are indigenous to South Carolina. Laurel Street is one of the original streets in the 1786 plan of Colu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEEL_taylor-street_Columbia-SC.html
[Front Text]:Named for the Taylor family, this street is one of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan. Thomas Taylor was a member of the first and second Provincial Congresses, the General Assembly, and was a trustee of S.C. College. In 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEEB_site-of-palmetto-iron-works_Columbia-SC.html
On the SW corner of this square was located the Palmetto Armory, later called Palmetto Iron Works, originally built for converting flint and steel muskets into percussion guns. Arms and munitions were manufactured here during the Confederate War, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEE1_lady-street_Columbia-SC.html
One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan. Lady Street is thought to have been named for Martha Custis Washington, the new nation's first lady whom South Carolina wished to honor. Lady Washington presided over the President's home, Mou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDP_blossom-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street is thought to take its name from the cotton blossom. Cotton became an important commercial crop in South Carolina after the cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney in 1794. A variety of cotton, known as Sea Island cotton and grown along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDO_harden-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street was named for William Harden, a native South Carolinian. In 1776 he was given command of Ft. Lyttelton near Beaufort by the Second Provincial Congress of which he was a member. In 1781, serving as colonel under Francis Marion, he comma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDN_birthplace-of-general-maxcy-gregg_Columbia-SC.html
Maxcy Gregg, Confederate General and leaderin Southern Rights Movement, was born Aug. 1, 1815 in a house on this site. Member of committee which framed the ordinance of secession, Dec. 1860;Colonel 1st Regiment South Carolina Volunteers; Brigadier…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDH_washington-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street is named for George Washington, commander of the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, first President of the United States, and president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Early in his presidency, Washington toured the sout…