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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM81T_the-booth-toney-shootout-of-1878_Edgefield-SC.html
On the 12th of August 1878, two Edgefield County families has a shootout here that left three persons dead on the Square and four others badly wounded. The Booth and Toney families were from the eastern side of the county near Trenton. There had b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM81F_lynch-building_Edgefield-SC.html
This is the site of W.E. Lynch & Company, a drug store form 1877 until 1969. The business was founded by William Edward Lynch (1851-1896), and continued by his wife, Kate Holstein Lynch (1854-1923), and son, W. Charlton Lynch (1882-1924) for nearl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM80O_the-jewish-merchants-of-edgefield_Edgefield-SC.html
In the years following 1900, a number of immigrant Jewish merchants moved to Edgefield and actively participated in the commercial life of the Town for nearly a century. All of these merchants sold 'dry goods," meaning textiles, ready-to-ware clot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM80M_oakley-park-museum_Edgefield-SC.html
Oakley Park was built in 1835 by a prosperous Edgefield planter, Daniel Bird. In 1841, Bird's son was tragically killed in a shoot-out in front of the Edgefield County Courthouse. Suffering great sorrow at his loss, Bird sold his home and left tow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM80K_j-strom-thurmond-birthplace_Edgefield-SC.html
[Front]:J. Strom Thurmond, by mid-1997 the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history, was born here to J. William and Gertrude Strom Thurmond Dec. 5, 1902. educated at Clemson College, he taught high school 1923-29, was county superintendent of educ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7YR_old-simkins-cemetery_Edgefield-SC.html
1/2 mile west, on "Ceder Fields" plantation, is buried the family of Captain Arthur Simkins, soldier in the American Revolution and a founder of Edgefield. Born in Virginia on Dec. 10, 1742, he died Sept. 29, 1826. He was a county court judge, a m…