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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0M_beth-shalom-synagogue_Columbia-SC.html
In 1905 disagreements over religious practices divided members of Columbia's Tree of Life Synagogue. Jews embracing Orthodoxy formed a new synagogue, which they named Beth Shalom (House of Peace). Meetings were held in a private home on the corner…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0L_harriett-cornwell-tourist-home_Columbia-SC.html
This home's first owner was John R. Cornwell, an African American business man and civic leader who owned a successful barber shop on Main St. After his death, Cornwell's wife Hattie and daughters Geneva Scott and Harriett Cornwell lived here. Fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0H_beth-shalom-cemetery_Columbia-SC.html
In 1883 members of Columbia's Jewish community founded the Hebrew Cemetery Society of Columbia as an alternative to the Hebrew Benevolent Society's cemetery, which had been established in 1822. The organization purchased a 4-acre tract bounded by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BYE_dentsville-school_Dentsville-SC.html
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Dentsville Consolidated School opened at this site in 1926. The brick building was the first school in the newly created Richland Two school district and served students who had previously attended numerous, smaller schools in the area. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BRG_broad-river_Columbia-SC.html
Early boundary between Cherokee and Catawba Indians. Name first applied about 1745. Faust's Ford, 2 mi. above, used in Revolution. First bridge opened 1829, burned 1865 to delay Sherman's army which crossed on pontoon bridges downstream. Bridge re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQI_bethlehem-church-i_Irmo-SC.html
The organization date of this Lutheran church is unknown. In 1788, however, Bethlehem and fourteen other churches signed the articles of the "Corpus Evangelicum," an early church supervising body. By 1815, Bethlehem's first known building had been…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQG_bethlehem-church-ii_Irmo-SC.html
Bethlehem Lutheran Church erected its first known building about 350 feet north of here on a 17-acre tract purchased from George Metz in 1817. According to tradition, the church was first called Ellisor Church after people of this name living near…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQE_little-zion-baptist-church_Blythewood-SC.html
The congregation at Little Zion dates to c. 1832, when enslaved individuals worshipped in white-controlled churches. After emancipation, these former slaves founded independent congregations like this one. A group led by Doctor Entzminger purchase…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQC_bethel-lutheran-church_White-Rock-SC.html
This church, organized in 1762 by German colonists, is one of the first Lutheran congregations in the Dutch Fork region. Incorporated in 1788 as "the German Lutheran Church of Bethel on High Hill Creek," it first met in a log church 3.5 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BB7_major-general-ervin-c-sharpe-jr_Myrtle-Beach-SC.html
Major General Sharpe was Vice Commander, then Commander, of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base during the period of January 1988 to June 1991.
During a portion of this time, he deployed with the Wing and A-10 aircraf…