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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53V_in-memory-of-81st-wildcat-division-camp-sevier_Greenville-SC.html
[Main marker]:In Memory of81st Wildcat Divisionwhich trained at Camp Sevier,Apr to July 1918Maj. Gen. Chas. J. Bailey,commanding.[Plaque at foot of marker]:Camp SevierCamp Sevier, a WWI National Guard training center, was located on 1900 acres off…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53A_poinsett-bridge_Travelers-Rest-SC.html
This bridgeon thestate roadfromGreenville to Ashevillewas builtin1820byAbram Landing,Acting Commissioner,Board of Public Works.Joel R. Poinsett, President.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM52T_dr-charles-hard-townes_Greenville-SC.html
Born in Greenville, S.C. 1915.Graduate of Furman University 1935.Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1964.Templeton Price Winner 2005.Designated one of the world's mostinfluential 1,000 menof the past 1,000 years.
Depicted at the moment of his "rev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM522_joel-roberts-poinsett_Greenville-SC.html
Statesman · Diplomat · NaturalistFounder, National Institution for the Promotion of Science, forerunner of the Smithsonian Institution
· First United States Minister to Mexico · · United States Secretary of Wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM51J_camperdown-mill_Greenville-SC.html
Greenville's first post-bellum textile mill was founded by Massachusetts mill owners George Hall, George Putnam, and O.H. Sampson, who came south to start a textile business after a disasterous fire in Boston. In cooperation with Vardry McBee's he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50T_richard-pearis_Greenville-SC.html
Richard Pearis, Greenville's first white settler, was an Irish adventurer who had settled in Virginia with his wife and family by the middle of the eighteenth century. He developed good trade relationships with the Cherokee Indians, had a son by a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM509_fateful-choices-the-hanging-of-isaac-hayne_Luray-SC.html
Isaac Hayne tried to spend the rest of the Revolutionary War in peace after the British captured Charleston in 1780. Although he had supported independence, Hayne accepted a parole - a promise to remain neutral - in exchange for his freedom. But t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZZ_martyr-of-the-revolution-hayne-hall_Waynesboro-SC.html
Martyr Of The Revolution When Loyalists soldiers attacked the camp of Col. Isaac Hayne's S.C. malitia about 5 mi. W on July 7, 1781, they captured Hayne. He was soon condemned as a traitor because he had previously declared allegiance to Great Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YU_first-baptist-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This congregation, founded in 1794 and long known as Antipedo Baptist Church, was the first separate Baptist congregation in Georgetown. Baptists had worshipped in the area as early as 1710, sharing the Black Mingo Meeting House with Presbyterians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YN_the-old-record-building_Greenville-SC.html
70 feet south of this point was erected, 1820, the old "Record Building," designed by Robert Mills (1871-1855), famous Charleston architect, designer of the Washington Monument. This building of classic design was county courthouse until 1855; the…