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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VO_bullock-creek-revolutionary-war-monument_Sharon-SC.html
This marker commemorates the men who participated in the American Revolution, and are interred in the Bullock's Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery. These men, believing in the noble cause of liberty, gallantly fought for their home and country. 17…
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(Front) Blairsville Schools1818 ~ 1819The Earliest known school in the Blairsville Area was one headed by R.Y. Russell. Conducted in a converted corn crib on the farm of James Hogg, about one mile from this site. 1830 ~ 1867About 1830 Rev. Aaro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGA7_laceys-fort_Sharon-SC.html
[Marker Front]Col. Edward Lacey (1742-1813), prominent officer in the American Revolution in the S.C. backcountry, occupied this hill west of Turkey Creek in the late summer of 1780. Lacey, who commanded S.C. militiamen in the battles of Rocky Mou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGA6_bullock-creek-presbyterian-church_Sharon-SC.html
Under leadership of Dr. Joseph Alexander, pastor 1774-1801, this church, organized in 1769, was a Whig stronghold during the Revolution. Three hundred yards west is the site of one of the earliest academies in upper South Carolina, established …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGA4_dickey-sherer-house_Sharon-SC.html
[Front]:A two-story log house built ca. 1771 for John Dickey (1703-1789) stood about 100 yds. NE until 1988, when it was moved to Kings Mountain State Park. Dickey, a native of Ireland, emigrated to Virginia with his wife Martha McNeely Dickey in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGA3_town-of-sharon-stone-marker_Sharon-SC.html
According to tradition, after the Battle of Kings Mountain, troops led by Colonel Edward Lacey retired to the high hills of Bullock's Creek. In 1876 York historian Rev. Robert Lathan fixed that location to be north of Scott's Mill, about five mile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGA2_town-of-sharon-sharon_Sharon-SC.html
Town of SharonJohn L. Rainey, owner of large tracts of land on which Sharon was established, conveyed land to the Presbyterian church in 1889 and 1898, the Methodists in 1897, and the Methodist Episcopal Zion church in 1904. The First National Ban…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGA0_first-national-bank-of-sharon_Sharon-SC.html
[Front]:This bank, built in 1909-10 by W.W. Blair, was the first bank in the town of Sharon, incorporated in 1889. Its first officers were J.H. Saye, president; J.L. Rainey, vice president; and A.M. Haddon, cashier. From 1910 to 1929 the U.S. Bure…
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