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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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM624_good-hope-church_Iva-SC.html
Oldest Presbyterian Churchin continuous existencein Anderson County.Organized in 1789.First pastor, Rev. John Simpson.Congregation worshipped at threesites nears Generostee Creek,three miles west of Iva.Old cemetery at third site.Sanctuary built i…
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Founded in 1821, this is the boyhood church and burial place of Olin D. Johnston. He was decorated for bravery in World War I, served in the S.C. House of Representatives, was twice Governor of S.C., in 1935-1939 and 1943-1945, and U.S. Senator fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RW_pickens-cemetery_Easley-SC.html
This land, Cherokee territory until 1777, became the final resting place after the American Revolution for early pioneers who settled the area. A number of soldiers of the Revolution are buried here including Robert Pickens, who served in the stat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5B6_big-creek-baptist-church_Williamston-SC.html
One of the oldest congregations and the mother of several others in Anderson County, it was organized in 1788 by Elder Moses Holland who served as pastor for 41 years. Dr. James Bruton Gambrell's mother was a member here. Soldiers of five wars lie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5B5_williamston-female-college_Williamston-SC.html
This college was founded Feb. 12, 1872, by the Reverend Samuel Lander, D.D., Methodist minister. On this site stood the college building until 1939. The school was removed to Greenwood, S.C., Sept. 27, 1904, becoming Lander College, in honor of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5A4_confederate-skirmish_Williamston-SC.html
On May 1, 1865, cadets from the Arsenal Academy at Columbia, under Capt. John Peyre Thomas, who were en route from Greenville to Newberry to be disbanded, met a band of Stoneman's raiders near here in one of the last engagements of the war, which …