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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RV_site-of-first-baptist-church-baptist-seminary_Greenville-SC.html
Site of First Baptist ChurchIn 1825, Wm. Bullein Johnson opened a subscription for a Baptist meetinghouse, which was soon built here. The 120 foot-square lot, which extended well into present McBee Ave., was given by Vardry McBee. After its organi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RS_greenville-womans-college_Greenville-SC.html
Established in 1854 by the S.C. Baptist Convention, this institution opened as Greenville Baptist Female College in February 1856, on this site originally donated by Vardry McBee to the Greenville Academies. Its name was changed to Greenville Woma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CV_christ-church-episcopal_Greenville-SC.html
Started in 1820 as St. James' Mission, the first church built here in 1825 on land given by Vardry McBee, was consecrated in 1828 by Bishop Nathaniel Bowen as Christ Church. The present church was built 1852-54 with Rev. John D. McCollough as arch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55H_reedy-river-falls_Greenville-SC.html
The falls of the Reedy River were a power source for industry, but they were also the town's chief price in the early nineteenth century. The subject of a Cherokee myth (a brave was said to have thrown himself over the falls because of unrequited …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55F_the-cherokees_Greenville-SC.html
Greenville County was Indian Territory before the Revolution. European settlers were forbidden to live here until 1777, when Cherokee Indians were forced to cede this land to the new state. Most of modern day Greenville was hunting land used by th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55D_falls-place_Greenville-SC.html
Greenville was a major textile center by the beginning of the twentieth century, and local cotton growers and brokers needed storage places for the harvested cotton. West End banker H.L. Gassaway and Dr. Davis Furman purchased land immediately sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55C_cradle-of-greenville_Greenville-SC.html
Near this sign, before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Pearis, best known of all Pre-Revolutionary settlers in the surrounding Cherokee Indian nation, established his home with a grist mill and trading post. Around this lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53V_in-memory-of-81st-wildcat-division-camp-sevier_Greenville-SC.html
[Main marker]:In Memory of81st Wildcat Divisionwhich trained at Camp Sevier,Apr to July 1918Maj. Gen. Chas. J. Bailey,commanding.[Plaque at foot of marker]:Camp SevierCamp Sevier, a WWI National Guard training center, was located on 1900 acres off…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM52T_dr-charles-hard-townes_Greenville-SC.html
Born in Greenville, S.C. 1915.Graduate of Furman University 1935.Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1964.Templeton Price Winner 2005.Designated one of the world's mostinfluential 1,000 menof the past 1,000 years.
Depicted at the moment of his "rev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM522_joel-roberts-poinsett_Greenville-SC.html
Statesman · Diplomat · NaturalistFounder, National Institution for the Promotion of Science, forerunner of the Smithsonian Institution
· First United States Minister to Mexico · · United States Secretary of Wa…