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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R4_winyah-indigo-society_Georgetown-SC.html
Springing from the fervor for indigo, the colony's vital new crop for making blue dye, the Winyah Indigo Society was begun in 1755 and incorporated 1757 to ensure stronger financial support for the free school which it had founded. Thomas Lynch wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R2_south-carolina-champion-oak_Georgetown-SC.html
The live oak between houses 513 and 515 Prince Street is registered with The American Forestry Associates as a State Champion - South Carolina. In 1940 the tree was estimated to be over 500 years old, and it measured 23 feet in circumference, 120 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4QS_sumter-street_Columbia-SC.html
[Front text]:A Virginia native who came to SouthCarolina ca. 1765, General ThomasSumter was a leader in civil as wellas military affairs. He served in theFirst and Second Provincial Congresses, in the S.C. General Assembly, as U.S. Congressman and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4QL_bufords-bridge_Olar-SC.html
(Front Text)Buford's Bridge, the earliest settlement in what is now Bamberg County, was established as early as 1792, when William Buford maintained a bridge and operated a ferry over the Salkehatchie River. It grew throughout the nineteenth centu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4QI_seaboard-air-line-passenger-station_Columbia-SC.html
[Front of Marker]:This depot, built by the Seaboard Air Line Railwayin 1904, was the third passenger depot built inColumbia, following the South Carolina RailroadDepot on Gervais St., built about 1850, and theUnion Station on Main St., built in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4QB_georgetown-county-courthouse_Georgetown-SC.html
This courthouse, designed by prominent architect andSouth Carolina nativeRobert Mills (1781-1855),was built in 1823-24 to replace a courthouse which had been damaged by two hurricanes. Mills himself,who also designed the Washington Monument, calle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PQ_screven-cemetery_Georgetown-SC.html
Here are buried William Screven (1624-1713) and other members of his family. A native of England, he migrated to Kittery, Me., and was persecuted by New England authorities for non-conformity. He and other members of the Kittery Church came to S.C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PG_william-doyle-morgan-house_Georgetown-SC.html
732 Prince Street was the home of William Doyle Morgan (1853-1938), mayor 1891-1906 and the catalyst for much of Georgetown's growth and prosperity by the turn of the century. He helped give the city what one observer called "the snap and vim of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PF_conrad-ehrhardt-railroad-park_Ehrhardt-SC.html
Conrad Ehrhardt was born in Weiterade Kuhrhessen Germany on December 13, 1832 and left home at the age of 19 to come to America. He came with only 25 cents in his pocket and skills that he aquired from the mills, in which he had worked, in Germany…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4O5_first-baptist-church_Gaffney-SC.html
[Lower marker]:First Baptist ChurchFounded 1878Built 1899B.P. Robertson, Pastor[Upper marker]Corner stone from second auditorium building which was demolished September 1949 to make way for the present building completed 1951.
[Dedication Plaqu…