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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKF_water-trough-and-drinking-fountain-historical_Aiken-SC.html
For many years, the water trough was located behind the County Courthouse. The following are to be commended for their efforts in restoring and re-establishing the trough as its new location on South Boundary. Aiken County Historical Commission…
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A sesquicentennial memorial gift to the city of Aiken by the family of Thomas H. Williamson (1888-1962), former county treasurer, member of the Aiken County Historical Commission and direct descendant of this cabin's builder.
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URS Corporation on the occasion of the City of Aiken's 175th year, graciously donated this symbolic representation of William Aiken Sr. (1779-1831), for whom the city was named in 1835. Aiken was an entrepreneur and president of the South Carolina…
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In Memory of Those Who Died in the Vietnam War Adams, Dwayne Lonnie Adams, Joseph Boyce Barton, Jere A. Boyd, Wayne Butler, Linnell Callahan, Clifton Eugene Clark, Allen Howell Douse, James Louis Garrett, Alonzo Gay, James Nathaniel Ge…
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In this building on October 31, 1898 the author Jeff Scott began collecting notes for the Southern novel Beneath The Glass Door. Due to unforeseen circumstances the book was not completed until much later. Out of the scenic village of His…
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Devils Postpile stands not only as an unusual geologic wonder but as a monument to the visionary efforts of a dedicated conservationist. In 1910, under U.S. Forest Service management, engineer Walter L. Huber received an application from mining in…
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The freshwater spring 1/2 mi. SE was used by prehistoric Indians. It was deeded to the town of Aiken in 1844 by William Perroneau Finley (1803-1876) and furnished Aiken drinking water throughout the 19th century. A regular stop on the stagecoach r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM174P_the-one-room-schoolhouse_Aiken-SC.html
Originally located in China Springs, near Aiken, and believed to have been built in the 1890's this schoolhouse was given to the Aiken County Historical Commission by Mrs. Guerin Hermann of Sandersville, Georgia in 1975.The one room schoolhouse pr…
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This is the site of Camp Butler, a Confederate "camp of instruction"that operated from the spring tothe fall of 1861, in what was thenBarnwell District. New companies,organized as independent companies,or in state regiments, were senthere for trai…
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Life in AikenThe coming of the railroad was a major factorin the birth of Aiken. The all-important cottoncrop and Graniteville fabrics could get to market.Add to life in Aiken a lady lonesome for herwealthy friends up North and you have the beginn…
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