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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6RS_william-bullein-johnson_Anderson-SC.html
President of Triennial Southern, South Carolina Baptist Conventions. Johnson Female University founded here in 1848 as Johnson Female Seminary was named for him because of his support for female education. From 1853 to 1858, while Chancellor of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6RQ_university-hill_Anderson-SC.html
Three educational institutions have been in this immediate area: Johnson Female University (1856-63) named for William Bullein Johnson; the Carolina Collegiate Institute (about 1866-90) under W. J. Ligon; and Patrick Military Institute (1887-1900)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6PJ_grace-episcopal-church_Anderson-SC.html
FrontThis Parish, organized in 1851 with the Rev. Benjamin Webb as its first vicar, grew out of occasional Episcopal services held in Anderson as early as 1844. The first church here, a frame Carpenter Gothic building, was completed in 1860 on lan…
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Organized in 1789 initially as an Armof the Shockley Ferry Church.Known for a time as Bethesda.Cooper Bennett was its first pastor.The oldest church in the Saluda BaptistAssociation, it has been a Lighthousefor the lost and a place for all toworsh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67M_richard-w-simpson_Pendleton-SC.html
Born in 1840, Colonel Simpson, lawyer, farmer, and legislator, drafted and executed Thomas Green Clemson's will, establishing Clemson Agricultural College in 1889. Simpson was first president of the college's board of trustees and once owned land …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67L_thomas-green-clemson_Pendleton-SC.html
A native Philadelphian and leading agriculturist, Mr. Clemson was U.S. charge d'affaires to Belgium, U.S. Superintendent of Agriculture, and the 1868 president of Pendleton Farmers Society. He married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, Anna, and lat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67K_clement-hoffman-stevens_Pendleton-SC.html
[Front]:Confederate Brig. Gen. Clement H. Stevens (1821-1864) is buried nearby in the Bee family plot. Born in Connecticut, Stevens moved to S.C. after his father's death in 1836. In 1861 he invented the first ironclad battery, which was built on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM66R_ashtabula_Central-SC.html
This plantation on the old road to Pickensville has been the home of several prominent S.C. families. Many of its owners were members of the Pendleton Farmers Society, and during the nineteenth century, studies, experiments, and advances in agricu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM66P_african-american-school-site_Pendleton-SC.html
The one-room frame public school organized shortly after the Civil War, housed 76 students and 1 teacher by 1870. The school term lasted 1 month and 10 days. Jane Harris Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley centers for working girls, attended t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM66O_printer-john-miller_Pendleton-SC.html
This London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina. Later in Pendleton he founded Miller's Weekly Messenger the…