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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEE1_lady-street_Columbia-SC.html
One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan. Lady Street is thought to have been named for Martha Custis Washington, the new nation's first lady whom South Carolina wished to honor. Lady Washington presided over the President's home, Mou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDP_blossom-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street is thought to take its name from the cotton blossom. Cotton became an important commercial crop in South Carolina after the cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney in 1794. A variety of cotton, known as Sea Island cotton and grown along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDO_harden-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street was named for William Harden, a native South Carolinian. In 1776 he was given command of Ft. Lyttelton near Beaufort by the Second Provincial Congress of which he was a member. In 1781, serving as colonel under Francis Marion, he comma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDN_birthplace-of-general-maxcy-gregg_Columbia-SC.html
Maxcy Gregg, Confederate General and leaderin Southern Rights Movement, was born Aug. 1, 1815 in a house on this site. Member of committee which framed the ordinance of secession, Dec. 1860;Colonel 1st Regiment South Carolina Volunteers; Brigadier…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDH_washington-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street is named for George Washington, commander of the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, first President of the United States, and president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Early in his presidency, Washington toured the sout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEDB_gregg-street_Columbia-SC.html
(Front text)Richard Winn, for whom this street was first named, was born in Virginia in 1750 and came to South Carolina as a young man. He fought throughout the Revolution (including the battles of Hanging Rock, Fish Dam Fords, Blackstock's) and b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMECW_henderson-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street is named for Brig. Gen. William Henderson who was in the Third S.C. Regiment at the fall of Charleston in 1780. He was captured, imprisoned, and later exchanged. In 1781, he was wounded while commanding a brigade at the Battle of Eutaw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMECE_pickens-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street was named for Andrew Pickens (1739-1817). One of the three S.C. Partisan Generals in the Revolution, he fought in the battles of Cowpens and Eutaw Springs both in 1781. Pickens served fourteen years in the S.C. House of Representatives…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMECD_bull-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street was named for Brigadier General Stephen Bull (c. 1733-1800). Grandson of Lt. Gov. William Bull I, Stephen was a member of the Commons House of Assembly, the First Provincial Congress, the First General Assembly. He saw military action …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMECA_marion-street_Columbia-SC.html
This street was named for Francis Marion, one of the three S.C. Partisan Generals during the American Revolution. The guerrilla tactics against the British by Marion and his Partisan band earned for him the name of "Swamp Fox." Congress voted its …