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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX3_florence-stockade-monument_Florence-SC.html
This boulder was placed here by the United Daughters of the Confederacy ofFlorence, S.C. January 27, 1947
To record the fact that directly south of this spotwas situated a stockade where 6,500 Federal prisoners were confined 1864 ~ 1865 and
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ60_browntown_Lake-City-SC.html
This area is part of several royal landgrants to Moses Brown in 1768-69 which developed into a family community known as Browntown. Family holdings here eventually comprised over 8,000 acres. Many indications of pioneering ingenuity and farm-relat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPG0_wilson-school-wilson-high-school_Florence-SC.html
Wilson School Wilson School, later Wilson High School, was the first public school in Florence, and stood here from 1866 to 1906. At first a private school for black children, it was established by the New England Branch of the Freedmen's Union Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFZ_american-legion-post-1-2nd-lieutenant-fred-h-sexton_Florence-SC.html
American Legion Post #1 This post, organized in May 1919 and chartered by national headquarters in June 1919, was the first American Legion post in S.C. Florence County veterans J.D. Smyser, R.B. Fulton, and N.S. Lachicotte represented S.C. at the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFY_pisgah-methodist-church_Florence-SC.html
Side A This church, founded in 1806 in what was Darlington District until Florence County was founded in 1888, grew out of an early Methodist "Society." Rev. Thomas Humphries (d. 1820), who served this and other area circuits, conducted the first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFX_florence-depot-1852-wilmington-manchester-rr_Florence-SC.html
Florence Depot The original depot named Florence was built here in 1852, where the Wilmington & Manchester RR crossed present-day Hoffmeyer Rd. It was named for Florence Harllee (1848-1927), daughter of the railroad's president, William W. Harllee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFW_ebenezer-church_Florence-SC.html
Side A In January of 1778 Ebenezer Baptist Church was constituted by pioneer minister Evan Pugh and Richard Furman, for whom Furman University is named. Admitted to the Charleston Baptist Association in 1778, the church was incorporated in 1791 as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFV_william-gee_Florence-SC.html
A veteran of the Revolution, William Gee served as a private with the Continental Line of N.C. and moved to this area before 1797. He was one of the original members of the Washington Society, organized in 1803 to establish an academy on Jeffries …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFU_moses-s-haynsworth_Florence-SC.html
Born in Darlington District in 1845, this Confederate War veteran witnessed the firing attack on the Union steamer Star of the West, as it attempted to reinforce Ft. Sumter Jan. 9, 1861. He participated in skirmishes at Tullifinny River near Yemas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYQ_the-assassination-of-rep-alfred-rush_Timmonsville-SC.html
[Front] Alfred Rush (d. 1876), a black state representative for two terms during Reconstruction, was assassinated near here, about 1/2 mi. from his home, on May 13, 1876. Rush, who represented what was then Darlington County in the S.C. House 1868…