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One of 125 watering troughs/fountains presented to communities around the U.S. in early 1900's by National Humane Alliance with endowment from Herman Lee Ensign, founder. Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932), actress/activist (husband president of the…
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This Alarm Bell Was AcquiredDuring The Term OfRobert McGowan HillMayor, 1892 - 1898And Named For Him.
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Northwest"Lord God of Hosts, Be With Us Yet,Lest We Forget, Lest We ForgetOn the hillside in the rear of this memorial on November 22, 1860, the first organized secession meeting was held.
On that day the ancient artillery company, the Southern…
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One of the first organized mass meetings held here on November 22, 1860, to launch South Carolina's secession from the Union. Judge A.G. Magrath of Charleston, urged "immediate action on the part of South Carolina at any & every hazard", followed …
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South:Ship's Anchor1861-1865
"The world shall yet decide,In truth's clear, far-off light,That the soldiers who wore the gray, and diedWith Lee were in the right!"—————"Brave men may die - right has no death;Truth n…
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5.5 miles southeast is the burial ground of Patrick and Martha Caldwell Calhoun, Parents of John C. Calhoun; Deputy Surveyor 1756; First Representative from Up Country to Commons House of Assembly, 1769-1772; Member of First Provincial Congress, 1…
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On this land settled by his father Patrick Calhoun in the 1750s, defended against the Indians in the Cherokee War and the enemies of liberty in the American Revolution, John Caldwell Calhoun, American statesman and champion of the old South, was b…
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Augustus J. Lythgoe, 19 S.C. Inf.Killed Murfreesboro, 1862J. Foster Marshall, Orr's RiflesKilled Second Manassas, 1862George M. Miller, Orr's RiflesWounded Spotsylvania, 1864James M. Perrin, Orr's RiflesKilled Chancellorsville, 1863Thomas Thomson,…
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Burt-Stark House When Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, left Richmond after its fall in April 1865, he traveled south, trying to reach and rally the remnants of his army. On May 2, he spent the night at the home of Col. Armistead Burt…
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Abbeville was a railway stopover for "road companies" traveling eastern seaboard from New York to Atlanta so town included an Opera House in its new municipal building designed by Edwards & Walter of Atlanta.· Dedicated October 1st, 1908 al…