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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5J1_winton-county-court-house-site_Barnwell-SC.html
Originally Barnwell County was part of Granville County, later a part of Orangeburg District. Winton County was created by an act of the legislature on March 12, 1785. Justices William Robertson, John Parkinson, Thomas Knight, Richard Treadway, Da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5I7_barnwell-county-courthouse_Barnwell-SC.html
(Marker Front)Barnwell County, originally Winton County,was created out of Orangeburgh Districtin 1785. Renamed Barnwell District in 1798for John Barnwell (1748-1800), a S.C. militiaofficer in the Revolution and afterwards,it became Barnwell Count…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5I6_boiling-springs-presbyterian-church_Barnwell-SC.html
[Marker Front]:This church was organized by Rev.James H. Thornwell on authorityfrom Charleston Presbytery; F.J.and W.A. Hay were its first elders.By 1846 Rev. Samuel H. Hay preachedon alternate Sundays here and at anew church in Barnwell; this con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HW_barnwell-county-courthouse_Blackville-SC.html
The county courthouse was on this site from 1871 to 1874. In 1869 Republican state senator Charles P. Leslie, a native of New York, sponsored an act to move the county seat from Barnwell to Blackville. Court was first held in a church until a two-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HT_ellenton-agricultural-club_Barnwell-SC.html
Established March 24, 1894, this agricultural club was organized to promote the welfare and interests of the Ellenton farmers and to improve conditions generally. The first clubhouse, built in 1904, was moved here in 1953 after the town of Ellento…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5H2_morris-ford-earthworks_Barnwell-SC.html
(Front text)Nearby earthworks at Morris Ford, on the Salkehatchie River, built in the spring 1780 by Loyalists under Ben John. In May, soon after Charleston fell to the British, Capt. John Mumford of the South Carolina militia was killed in action…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GW_boiling-springs-academy_Barnwell-SC.html
[Marker Front]:Boiling Springs Academy was founded by the Boiling Springs Academical Society in 1823, with trustees Hansford Duncan, John Fowke, James Furse, William Gillette, Gideon Hagood, Frederick Hay, Lawrence Hext, James Higginbottom, Jennin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GM_barnwell-county-confederate-monument_Barnwell-SC.html
Our Confederate Dead
(West Face) Who throughout a longand bloody struggle dis-played a heroism and de-votion to duty unsurpass-ed. If ever equaled in the annuals of war. (South face) Who wrung from the greatcommander of the opposingarmies the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GL_blackville-town-of-the-phoenix-battle-of-blackville_Blackville-SC.html
(Front text)Blackville: Town of the PhoenixBlackville was founded in 1833 as the first overnight stop on the new railroad operated by the S.C. Canal & Railroad Co. It was also the scene of 4 major fires in the late 19th century (in 1865, 1876, 188…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5DF_collins-park_Barnwell-SC.html
This park was given to the City of Barnwellby the Robert O. Collins Family in 2000. It was once the site of the home ofWilliam Gilmore Simms and his wife,Emma Hertzog Simms. The property,purchased by Joseph Allen Porter in 1919,remained in the Por…