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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4I8_in-memoriam_Gaffney-SC.html
Married June 27th, 1874.Came to Gaffney in August, 1876.Merchant, Banker, President of Mills,Business Leader, Builder of Homes andHouses of Business, Philanthropist.This building was erected by A.N. Woodin 1881, being from the beginning Basement,S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4HI_carnegie-library_Gaffney-SC.html
This Classical Revival building, built in 1913-14 and designed by Arthur W. Hamby, was one of 14 public libraries built in S.C. between 1903 and 1916 with funding from Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Foundation. A 1938 addition compatible to the orig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GT_the-reverend-thomas-curtis-d-d_Gaffney-SC.html
[East Face]:Erectedto the MemoryofThe ReverendThomas Curtis, D.D.by his affectionateanddevoted pupils.[West Face]:He was bornMay 10, 1797 in the townof Wisbfach England.And was lost in the wreck of thesteamer North Carolina,bound from Baltimore to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GS_michael-gaffney-home_Gaffney-SC.html
Michael Gaffney was born in Granard Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1797. After a short period in New York, he set sail for Charleston, South Carolina. He departed Charleston for the upstate and arrived at Smith's Ford on the Broad …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GI_gaffney_Gaffney-SC.html
[Southeast Face]Born Sept. 29,1775 in Granard, County Longford, Ireland.Came to Charleston S.C.Feb. 3, 1800.Married Miss. Polly Smithof Smith's Ford Union CountyJuly 21, 1803.He established the presentsite of Gaffney in 1804.Was Captain in the war…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4FV_gaffney_Gaffney-SC.html
The Grindal Shoals and Cherokee Ford roads crossed here when this land was orininally granted to JohnSarratt in 1799 by the State of South Carolina. Michael Gaffney purchased the land in 1804 and by1820 Gaffney's Tavern was located at the crossroa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4FU_bethel-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first separate black church in Georgetown County. It was established by the Rev. A. T. Carr shortly after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves. The church purchased this property…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4EK_ridgeland-baptist-church_Ridgeland-SC.html
( Front text )This church was organized February28,1892, by Revs. W.H.Dowling andJ.T. Morrison with nine chartermembers. It was admitted to theSavannah River Baptist Associationwith Rev.Dowling as its firstminister. The congregation heldservices i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4EB_cedar-springs-a-r-p-church_Abbeville-SC.html
[Front]:This church was organized 1779-1780 by Dr. Thomas Clark (d. 1791), who had emigrated from Ireland to N.Y. in 1764. Clark moved to this area permanently about 1786, preaching here, at Long Cane (now Lower Long Cane), and at Little Run. He i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4E6_barkers-mill-skirmish-at-barkers-mill_Fairfax-SC.html
(Barker's Mill side of marker):Barker's Mill, which stood here on Jackson Branch, was a grist millowned by William Ransome Barker(1816-1869), a planter in what wasthen Barnwell District. Barker movedto this are in the 1850s,built a houseabout 2 mi…