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historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-57721_whitehead-infirmary_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) Dr. James Whitehead (1906-2004) was a graduate of Lake City H.S. and the Medical University of S.C. After completing his internship at Spartanburg General, he returned to Lake City where he practiced medicine for 55 years. In 1938 he ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMF_whitehead-infirmary_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) Dr. James Whitehead (1906-2004) was a graduate of Lake City H.S. and the Medical University of S.C. After completing his internship at Spartanburg General, he returned to Lake City where he practiced medicine for 55 years. In 1938 he ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YME_church-street-main-street_Lake-City-SC.html
Church Street Before the 1820s this intersection of two major roads, one from Georgetown to Camden and the other from Charleston to Cheraw, was popularly called "the crosswords." After Arron Graham built a house here ca. 1930, the area became kno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMD_h-h-singletary-building_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) This two-story commercial building was built in 1910 by Henry Horace Singletary (1848-1912) as the H.H. Singletary Company, with a grocery store on the first floor. Singletary, perhaps the most prominent businessman and civic leader in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMC_palmetto-state-bank-robbery_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) Constructed in 1907, this building originally housed Farmers and Merchants Bank. IN 1934 the newly formed Palmetto State Bank opened here. On Sept. 5, 1934 the bank was robbed by three armed men. The bank had larger than normal deposits …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMB_w-t-askins-house_Lake-City-SC.html
This Folk Victorian house, with pierced brackets and fretwork on its two-tiered porch, was built ca. 1895 for William Thomas Askins (1859-1932). Askins, a merchant and farmer, built and operated five stores here beginning in the 1890s, including t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ZP_world-war-ii-memorial_Florence-SC.html
These pines dedicated with reverence as a living memorial to those who served in World War II Wildwood Garden Club February 2, 1945
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ZO_the-cruiser-pee-dee-c-s-n_Florence-SC.html
Front The Cruiser Pee Dee, C. S. N. Built C.S.N. Navy Yard, Pee Dee, S. C. 1864 Burned to avoid capture March 15, 1865."No Nation rose so white and fair, None fell so pure of crime." Reverse Boulder Donated by Winnsboro Granite Co. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10YG_henry-timrod_Florence-SC.html
Henry Timrod 1828 ~ 1867 Poet Laureate of the Confederacy ~ * ~Within this building he taught, among others, "Katie," later to become his wife.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10GC_witherspoons-ferry-francis-marion-takes-command_Johnsonville-SC.html
Late in the summer of 1780, Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates led a Continental army toward South Carolina to attempt to roll back the British conquest of the province. As Gates prepared to meet the British at Camden, he sent Col. Francis Marion ~ a Contine…
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