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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYL_ney-school-back-swamp-school_Florence-SC.html
Ney School About 1843 Robert Rogers (1808-1882), a planter at "Blooming Grove" in the Back Swamp community of what was then Darlington District, built a plantation schoolhouse and hired Peter Stuart Ney (d. 1846) to teach his children. The origina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYI_william-r-johnson-house-the-columns_Florence-SC.html
William R. Johnson HouseThis Greek Revival house was built ca. 1854 for William R. Johnson, (1813-1893), physician, planter, and legislator in what was then Marion District. Johnson, an 1838 graduate of the Medical College of S.C., later served in…
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[Front] Roseville Plantation was established by a royal grant before the American Revolution and a house was built here ca. 1771 for the Dewitt family. Richard Brockinton (d. ca. 1843), planter and state representative, purchased Roseville in 1821…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOXW_red-doe_Quinby-SC.html
[Front] This house was built in 1846 for Evander A. Gregg (1818-1874), a planter in what was Marion District. Its high masonry basement and porch form, indigenous to northeastern S.C., make it a fine example of a raised Carolina cottage. It was ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFN3_atomic-bomb-accident-at-mars-bluff-march-11-1958_Florence-SC.html
[Marker Front]In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near here.The unarmed 7,600-lb., 10'8"-long bomb was aboard a B-47E bomber on a training mission headed for England. Its high-explosive tri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDHS_william-h-johnson-birthplace_Florence-SC.html
Marker Front:William Henry Johnson (1901-1970), one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century, was born nearby on Cox Street. His family later lived on the corner of Cheves and Kemp Streets. In 1918, at the age of 17, John…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDHR_christ-episcopal-church_Florence-SC.html
Marker front:First organized as a chapel in 1843 by the Rev. N.P. Tillinghast of Trinity Church, Society Hill, this church was formally established as Christ Church, Mars Bluff, in 1856. The Rev. Augustus Moore, who took over the chapel in 1854, b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBXQ_hewn-timber-cabins_Florence-SC.html
The African Americans who built the two hewn-timber cabins that stand 200 yds. S. on Wallace Woods Road were brought to Mars Bluff as slaves in 1836. They lived in these cabins on the cotton plantation of J. Eli Gregg, in what was then Marion Dist…