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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25C5_chesterfield-high-school_Chesterfield-SC.html
(front) Chesterfield High School, which stood here from 1908 to 1992, was the successor to Chesterfield Academy, an antebellum school burned by Federal troops in 1865. A new academy, built in 1889, later became Chesterfield School. By 1907 it has…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25C4_chesterfield-academy_Chesterfield-SC.html
(front) The building that stands here once served as the Chesterfield Academy. The first Chesterfield Academy building was located nearer to downtown. Local tradition holds that the Union 20th Corps burned the school along with other buildings in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XSN_chesterfield-post-office-historical_Chesterfield-SC.html
(side 1) This post office, built in 1937-38, is one of several New Deal-era post offices in S.C. designed by the Public Works Division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Its architecture, a restrained version of the Colonial Revival style, i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM112X_the-71st-regiment-of-foot_Cheraw-SC.html
Encamped at Cheraw Hills in the summer of 1780 during the American Revolutionary War. The Fraser Highlanders were recruited in Scotland in 1775 by their Clan Chief Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, to serve in the army of King George III. They fou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVXM_austin-craig-laney-house_Chesterfield-SC.html
(Front):This Carpenter Gothic house was begun ca. 1858 for Aaron Austin (1831-1863) and his wife Margaret Jane Craig. Austin, a Northerner who settled in Chesterfield in the 1850s, was a lawyer and also a Chesterfield District magistrate. He joine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV3P_cheraw-confederate-memorial_Cheraw-SC.html
(Front):Erected by Ladies Memorial AssociationTo the memoryof our Heroic Deadwho fell at Cherawduring the War1864 - 1865. (Left Side):Fallen but not dead!"They have crossed over the riverAnd they rest in the shade of the trees." (Right Side…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV37_francis-asburys-first-visit-to-s-c_Cheraw-SC.html
Front Francis Asbury (1745-1816), pioneer bishop of American Methodism, came to Cheraw in 1785, on his first visit to S.C. Asbury had just been ordained a general superintendent at the first General Conference in Baltimore on December 27, 1784. He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV33_captain-mose-rogers_Cheraw-SC.html
Captain Mose Rogers Died Nov. 11, 1821 Commander S.S. SavannahFirst Steam Ship To Cross the Atlantic Crossed in 1819
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSDI_north-carolina-south-carolina_Cheraw-SC.html
North CarolinaColonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 South CarolinaFormed in 1712 from part of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663, it was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUS_w-d-craig-house_Chesterfield-SC.html
One of Chesterfield's earliest houses, the Wm. Duke Craig House, c.1820, stood here before it was moved in 1975. Craig (1845-1935), farmer and merchant, also owned nearby Craig's Grist Mill. He fought in the Civil War with the 21st Regiment, S.C. …
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