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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUR_john-craig-house_Chesterfield-SC.html
[Front]:This house, the oldest in Chesterfield, was built ca. 1798 for John Craig (1755-1839), veteran of the American Revolution, merchant and miller, and county official. Craig's father Hugh moved his family from Ireland to Virginia in 1760; Joh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUQ_first-secession-meeting_Chesterfield-SC.html
[Front]:First Secession Meeting, Chesterfield Courthouse.
Nov. 19, 1860.
Banner used on Secession Day.
[Rear]:Dedicated by the U.D.C's of Chesterfield Co. to the brave men, devoted women and faithful slaves, '61-'65.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUP_chesterfield-courthouse_Chesterfield-SC.html
Chesterfield County's first courthouse was built here soon after the county was established in 1785. The second courthouse on this site was built 1825-1829 from plans by architect Robert Mills, designer of the Washington Monument. According to loc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIT9_dizzy-gillespie-birthplace_Cheraw-SC.html
[Front]:John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was born in a house on this site on Oct. 21, 1917. His family lived here until they moved to Philadelphia in 1935. A founder of modern jazz, Gillespie was an innovative trumpeter and bandleader known for his be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIT7_pee-dee-union-baptist-church_Cheraw-SC.html
[Front]This church, formally organized in 1867, had its origins in Cheraw Baptist Church, founded in 1837. Shortly after the Civil War 285 black members there received permission to organize a separate church. Rev. Wisdom London, the first pastor …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIT6_old-st-davids_Cheraw-SC.html
St. David's, authorized by the General Assembly in 1768, was the last parish established in colonial S.C. Said to be buried in its churchyard are soldiers of British forces occupying the Cheraws in 1780. The steeple and vestibule of this Episcopal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIT3_cash-homesite-capt-thomas-ellerbe_Cheraw-SC.html
Cash HomesiteAbout 100 yards east of here was the home of General Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash, widely known for his 1880 duel with challenger Colonel William M. Shannon, whom he killed. Subsequently, all officers of the state and members of the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIT1_seaboard-air-line-railway-depot_McBee-SC.html
This depot, built in 1914, was the second station built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway in McBee. The town, the most successful of those established along Seaboard's Columbia-to-Cheraw line after it was completed in 1900, grew so quickly that a n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBXK_coulter-memorial-academy-site_Cheraw-SC.html
Organized in 1881, this Negro Presbyterian (USA) school was founded by the Rev. J.P. Crawford with support from Mrs. C.E. Coulter from whom it received its name. The Rev. G.W. Long was academy president from 1908 until 1943, and Coulter offered ju…