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historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-57721_whitehead-infirmary_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) Dr. James Whitehead (1906-2004) was a graduate of Lake City H.S. and the Medical University of S.C. After completing his internship at Spartanburg General, he returned to Lake City where he practiced medicine for 55 years. In 1938 he ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMF_whitehead-infirmary_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) Dr. James Whitehead (1906-2004) was a graduate of Lake City H.S. and the Medical University of S.C. After completing his internship at Spartanburg General, he returned to Lake City where he practiced medicine for 55 years. In 1938 he ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YME_church-street-main-street_Lake-City-SC.html
Church Street Before the 1820s this intersection of two major roads, one from Georgetown to Camden and the other from Charleston to Cheraw, was popularly called "the crosswords." After Arron Graham built a house here ca. 1930, the area became kno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMD_h-h-singletary-building_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) This two-story commercial building was built in 1910 by Henry Horace Singletary (1848-1912) as the H.H. Singletary Company, with a grocery store on the first floor. Singletary, perhaps the most prominent businessman and civic leader in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMC_palmetto-state-bank-robbery_Lake-City-SC.html
(side 1) Constructed in 1907, this building originally housed Farmers and Merchants Bank. IN 1934 the newly formed Palmetto State Bank opened here. On Sept. 5, 1934 the bank was robbed by three armed men. The bank had larger than normal deposits …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YMB_w-t-askins-house_Lake-City-SC.html
This Folk Victorian house, with pierced brackets and fretwork on its two-tiered porch, was built ca. 1895 for William Thomas Askins (1859-1932). Askins, a merchant and farmer, built and operated five stores here beginning in the 1890s, including t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ60_browntown_Lake-City-SC.html
This area is part of several royal landgrants to Moses Brown in 1768-69 which developed into a family community known as Browntown. Family holdings here eventually comprised over 8,000 acres. Many indications of pioneering ingenuity and farm-relat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOY1_lake-city_Lake-City-SC.html
[Front] This area, in what was then Williamsburg Township, was settled as early as 1754 by members of the Dick, Graham, McAllister, Scott, and other families. Several residents served under Francis Marion during the Revolution. By the 1820s this c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOXZ_greater-st-james-a-m-e-church_Lake-City-SC.html
[Front] This church was founded in 1883 by a Rev. Hill and twenty-five charter members. Early services were held in a member's house on E. Main Street. The congregation purchased a lot at the corner of Lake and N. Church Streets in 1885 and built …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIL3_coopers-academy-bethesda-methodist-church_Lake-City-SC.html
[Front]:Cooper's Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until 1927, and a public school 1927-1958. Founded by Moses Cooper, H.J. Cooper, and Ada E. Martin, it was first called Cooper's Aca…
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