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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFUI_beaver-creek-skirmish-capture-of-provisions-at-flat-rock_Heath-Springs-SC.html
(Front) American forces under Major William R. Davie had captured a British convoy July 21, 1780, and were retreating with prisoners mounted two to the horse when ambushed by British several miles west of here on Beaver Creek. Nearly all the Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFUG_flat-creek-baptist-church_Kershaw-SC.html
This church, organized July 4, 1776 by Rev. George Pope, a native of Virginia, held its first meetings in a brush arbor on this site and was known as the Upper Fork of Lynches Creek until it was renamed Flat Creek Baptist Church in 1881. The first…
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(Front) In 1827 Benjamin Haile (1768-1842) found gold here while panning in the streams on his plantation. After he found gold ore as well, Haile set up a mining operation. By 1837 the Haile Gold Mine included a 5-stamp mill, with steel stamps o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFU2_kershaws-first-library_Kershaw-SC.html
This building, originally just south of Kershaw on what is now U.S. Hwy. 521, was built in 1900 for Capt. James V. Welsh (1845-1906) as the office for J.V. Welsh & Sons, a lumber mill. It later housed Kershaw's first circulating library, founded b…
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Welsh's StationWelsh's Station, a depot on the Charleston, Cincinnati, & Chicago Railroad built in 1888, stood at or near this site. The town of Kershaw was first named for Capt. James V. Welsh, who donated 63 acres on which to establish a town an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFU0_kershaw_Kershaw-SC.html
Marker Front:Kershaw, originally Welsh's Station, was founded in 1888 when Capt. James V. Welsh (1845-1906) persuaded the Charleston, Cincinnati, & Chicago Railroad to build a depot halfway between Camden and Lancaster, on what was then the county…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFTZ_battle-of-hanging-rock_Heath-Springs-SC.html
About 2.5 miles south is Hanging Rock, where Maj. Davie surprised a British force, Aug. 1, 1780, and killed or wounded most of them. There also, Aug. 6, 1780, Col. Hill, Col. Irwin, and Maj. Davie, all under Gen. Sumter, successfully attacked the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFTY_james-ingram-home_Kershaw-SC.html
While on his Southern tour, President George Washington spent the night of May 26, 1791, at the James Ingram house, near here. According to Washington's diary, he left Ingram's at four o'clock the next morning and continued his journey northward, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFTX_birthplace-of-dr-james-marion-sims_Heath-Springs-SC.html
About 1? miles west of this spot stood the house in which Dr. James Marion Sims was born on January 25, 1813. Father of modern gynecology, Dr. Sims was honored by the American and by European governments for his service to suffering women, empress…
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On this site, Col. Abraham Buford's force of about 350 American patriots, while returning to Hillsborough, N.C., following the fall of Charles Town, were overtaken by British troops commanded by Col. Banastre Tarelton, it is historically told that…