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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6XB_high-shoals_Anderson-SC.html
2.9 miles south on Rocky RiverAnderson Water, Light, & Power Co.,organized in 1894 byWilliam C. Whitner,was successful the next yearin transmitting electricity overthe distance of six milesto Anderson.This achievement was a heraldof the industrial…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WO_historic-wilhite-house_Anderson-SC.html
Home OfDr. P.A. WilhiteDiscoverer Of Ether
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WL_st-johns-methodist-church_Anderson-SC.html
Organized in 1828, thiswas the first church inAnderson. A log meetinghouse built in 1830 onWest Benson Street servedthe church until 1858when a frame buildingwas erected on this site.A brick church replacedit in 1888. The presentsanctuary was comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WK_anderson-county-confederate-monument_Anderson-SC.html
[North]:(Palmetto Tree)(Crossed swords in scabbards with a laurel wreath - representing the cavalry.)(Confederate Battle Flag)"Though conquered, we adore it!Love the cold dead hands that bore it!"
[West]:(Furled Stainless Banner)(Cannon wheel, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WH_first-presbyterian-church_Anderson-SC.html
Organized Sept. 23, 1837 on land given by J. N. Whitner. First frame structure was built in 1839. Anderson's first cemetery is here, and city's first Sunday School was organized here about 1855. Present sanctuary's cornerstone was laid in 1879. Ki…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WF_old-hopewell-cemetery_Anderson-SC.html
Located 1.09 miles northwest, this cemetery marks the original site of Hopewell Baptist Church which was constituted in 1803. The cemetery contains graves of Revolutionary and Confederate veterans. Some graves are marked by field stones with hand-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VS_portman-dam-and-power-plant_Anderson-SC.html
[Front Marker]:In 1889, the City of Anderson contracted with a 26 year old native son, an engineering graduate of the University of South Carolina, to build a steam power plant and water system for the city. Keeping up with the engineering achieve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VR_portman-shoals_Anderson-SC.html
Half mile West on Seneca Riverthe Portman Shoals Power Plant,built by William C. Whitner,began in 1897 the transmissionof high-voltage electricity overthe longest lines then in use forthat purpose in the United States.The success of this plant,now…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VQ_william-church-whitner_Anderson-SC.html
Native son William Church Whitner developed the concept and spearheaded financing for the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power over a long distance in the South. On May 1, 1895, electricity travelled six miles from a generator at High Shoal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VP_anderson-the-electric-city_Anderson-SC.html
Front:Anderson was dubbed "The Electric City" in 1895 when William C. Whitner, an engineer and native of Anderson, built a hydroelectric power plant which was the first in the South to transmit electricity over long distances. The plant, in McFall…