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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18BJ_plywoods-plastics-corporation-westinghouse-micarta-division_Hampton-SC.html
Plywoods - Plastics Corporation??This complex, opened in 1942 as Plywoods - Plastics Corporation, has beensignificant in the industryand economy of Hampton andthe lowcountry ever since.??In 1941 Plywood ProductsCorporation bought thissite from the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTIS_whippy-swamp-muster-ground_Hampton-SC.html
(Front) This area, called Whippy Swamp Cross Roads, was in Beaufort District before Hampton County was created in 1878. In 1840 the Whippy Swamp Guards of the 12th S.C. Militia built their "militia house" nearby. It hosted inspections, drills, pic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQC6_american-legion-hut_Hampton-SC.html
(Front text) This 1933 cypress-log hut is the headquarters of American Legion Post #108. Legionnaires and other local citizens cut cypress trees for it, designed it, and built it, with funding from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a Depress…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOFB_world-war-ii-pow-camp_Hampton-SC.html
(Front text) German prisoners of war were held in a camp on this site from September 1943 to the spring of 1946. This camp, one of 21 in S.C., was a sub-camp of Fort Jackson, in Columbia. 250 prisoners captured in North Africa were the first held …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNUU_bank-of-hampton_Hampton-SC.html
(Front text) The Bank of Hampton, built in 1892, was the first bank organized in Hampton and an important part of the rapid growth and development of the county seat from the 1890s to the mid-1920s. It was designed by Vincent Joseph Fontaine, a Fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHP5_james-washington-moore-house_Hampton-SC.html
(Front text) This house, built between 1878 and 1885, was the home of James Washington Moore (1837-1912), lawyer, Confederate officer, state legislator, and militia officer. Moore, a native of Gillisonville, was educated at the University of Ga. a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1M_all-wars-memorial_Hampton-SC.html
( North Face)The Official Roster of South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and Marines from Hampton Countywho died defending our country
World War I 1917-1918
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCXI_hampton-colored-school_Hampton-SC.html
Constructed for black students,thiselementary school was built shortlyafter Hampton County School Districtpurchased the land in the late 1920s.Two of the school's alumni of the 1930'sand 1940s, brothers James F. and Julius C. Fields achieved natio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7FN_hampton-colored-school_Hampton-SC.html
The National Register Of Historical PlacesSouth CarolinaDepartment of Archives and HistoryHampton Colored School
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6AA_miles-mcsweeney-home-site_Hampton-SC.html
On this site stood the home of Miles Benjamin McSweeney ( 1854 ~ 1909 ), first Governor of South Carolina from Hampton County. He was the founder of the Hampton County Guardian, S.C. representative 1894 ` 96, Lieutentant Governor 1897 ~ 99, and G…