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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XOM_jeffcoats-meeting-house-historical_North-SC.html
Erected as a log structure, Jeffcoats' Meeting House was a Wesleyan meeting house and school to Big Pond Branch, a small community along a branch of the north fork of the Edisto river in an area known as The Indian Head. This meeting house was fou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BGF_delingo-school_West-Columbia-SC.html
From 1900 until 1916 Lexington County School District No. 68 operated a public school on this site. The building consisted of a single room where one teacher taught an average of 30 students of all grades.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A5Y_milestones_West-Columbia-SC.html
A milestone was one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or other type of boundary at intervals of one mile, or occasionally, parts of a mile. These stone markers indicated either the distance traveled or the remaining distance to a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A5T_old-congaree-river-bridges_West-Columbia-SC.html
Before a bridge was attempted at this location, earlier bridges farther down river had been built, but were washed away in floods. Consequently, for more than 30 years only ferry service provided transportation across the river. In 1827 the Columb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A5P_fridays-ferry_West-Columbia-SC.html
This ferry was named after the German settler Martin Fridig, who changed his name to Friday. He came to the area about 1735. In 1754 Friday received permission from the Colonial assembly in Charleston to operate a ferry across the Congaree near th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A5O_gervais-street-bridge_West-Columbia-SC.html
This 1,412-foot-long arch bridge opened in 1927. At the time, the bridge was considered exceptional because of its innovative use of reinforced concrete and because it was the widest roadway in South Carolina. The Gervais Street Bridge was the onl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A5L_river-inn-c-1740s_West-Columbia-SC.html
" The transacting of Public Business on Saturdays . . . are executed at Taverns [where] there is more Company of a Saturday, than in the Church on Sunday."The Rev. Charles Woodmason. "Sermon at the Congarees." C. 1768This nearby structure was mod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19YI_city-of-columbia-anchor_West-Columbia-SC.html
Anchor fromC. S. N. "City of Columbia"—————Donated byMrs. Lemuel HallIn memory ofLemuel HallMayor of West Columbiafor 24 years
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1446_guignard-park_Cayce-SC.html
Gift to the City of Cayce on March 13, 1961, by the heirs of John G. Guignard to be maintained as a public park in a state of natural beauty. This park established to conserve wild flowers, native shrubs and trees and to provide a place of quiet a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1444_emily-geiger_Cayce-SC.html
Emily Geiger Heroine of the Revolutionary War captured while delivering secret message from Gen. Greene to Gen. Sumter held captive at Fort Granby July 3, 1781