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[Photo of guest room]Ehrhardt HallThis restored 19th century mansion located in the town of Ehrhardt is a bed and breakfastand features six guest rooms with amenities including fireplaces. [Photo of Sinclair Station]Olar Sinclair StationIn 1929…
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SC Methodists began an institution on this site in 1892 naming it Carlisle Fitting School, for James H. Carlisle, president of Wofford College 1875-1902. It served as a coeducational preparatory institutionfor Wofford. Col. James F. Risher (1889-1…
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Ehrhardt Hall was built in 1903 with Victorian style architecture. The owner, Dr. James Haynes Roberts, born March 2, 1863, was originally from the Allendale area. Following in his father's footsteps, who was a self taught dentist and 2nd lieutena…
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Methodist Church established by 1832.Present 1856 house ofworship is all thatremains of pre~ CivilWar Settlement of Buford's Bridge.
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[Front Text]Voorhees College, founded by Elizabeth Evelyn Wrightin 1897 as the Denmark Industrial School, was aneffort to emphasize a vocational curriculum forrural African American students on the model ofthe Tuskegee Institute. The school, with …
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This Georgian Revival building, completed in 1923, at the cost of $300,000, was the third Denmark office of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. In 1898, long-distance lines from Virginia to Georgia, and from Alabama to Charleston crossed…
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Eleven years after the battle of Rivers Bridge, a group of local young men formed the RiversBridge Confederate Memorial Association andreburied the Confederate dead here, about a mile from the battlefield. The Memorial Association began to meet at…
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( Front face )In Memory of our Confederate Dead who fell in battle at River's BridgesFeb. 4, 1865. (Reverse face ) Soldier's rest, your welfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,Dream of battlefields no more, Days of danger, nights o…
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Most of the Confederates killed here were Georgians,and most were unknown when they were reburied. Butthe local community remembered them as " our Confederate dead, " the fallen heroes of a common cause. The monument placed over their mass grave i…
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( Left side ) The Legacy of Total WarFrom January to March in 1865 more than 60,000 Union soldiers led by GeneralWilliam Tecumseh Sherman marched across South Carolina. They broughttotal war to the state, destroyingrailroads, factories and farms a…
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