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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPO_pleasant-hill-school_Hemingway-SC.html
Pleasant Hill Consolidated School opened in 1938 as an elementary and high school. It also included a cannery and a home economics/farm-shop building. Pleasant Hill housed a middle and high school 1970-1985 and closed in 2000 as Pleasant Hill Midd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPL_pleasant-hill-baptist-church_Hemingway-SC.html
In 1875 Bible study in home of John Owens was the beginning of the church with 15 charter members. Richard Cribb was the first pastor in 1877 when the church joined the Waccamaw Association. The first building was approximately 20 x 35 feet constr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAOW_the-oaks-plantation_Georgetown-SC.html
The Oaks Plantation was establishedon the Santee River in 1705 by a grantfrom the Lords Proprietors to JohnSauseau, a French Huguenot settler.It passed through several owners inthe prominent Buchanan and Withersfamilies before 1793, when brothersI…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAOR_general-arthur-m-manigault_Georgetown-SC.html
Volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. Beauregard in April 1861, mustered into Confederate service at White's Bridge near here on July 19, 1861, as Colonel of the 10th Regiment, S.C. Infantry, promoted Brigadier General on April 26, 1863, wounded at the B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAOH_gabriel-marion_Georgetown-SC.html
When Capt. John Nelson, sent by Gen. Marion, Jan., 1781, to the Sampit Road to reconnoitre, met Capt. Barfield and his Tories near White's Bridge, a sharp fight ensued. Lieut. Gabriel Marion, nephew of Gen. Marion, was captured and inhumanely shot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAMR_hopsewee_Georgetown-SC.html
Thomas Lynch, Jr., signer of the DeclarationOf Independence, was born here Aug. 5, 1749. He was elected from St. James Parish, Santee, to 1st Provincial Congress, Dec. 19, 1774; to2nd Provincial Congress, Aug. 7-8, 1775; tothe Continental Congress…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAMH_hobcaw-barony_Georgetown-SC.html
[Marker Front]:In 1718 the Lords Proprietors granted12,000 acres on Hobcaw Point, the southern portion of Waccamaw Neck, to John, Lord Carteret. The barony wassubdivided beginning in 1766, creatingseveral large rice plantations whichflourished unt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6F7_south-carolinas-third-oldest-city_Georgetown-SC.html
Founded in 1729, Georgetown is the third oldest city in South Carolina and was named for George, Prince of Wales, who later became King George II. Settled by migrating families from Charleston, the colonial residents made their livelihood as trade…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YU_first-baptist-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This congregation, founded in 1794 and long known as Antipedo Baptist Church, was the first separate Baptist congregation in Georgetown. Baptists had worshipped in the area as early as 1710, sharing the Black Mingo Meeting House with Presbyterians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WU_mount-olive-baptist-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This church was founded in 1866 by Rev. James Smalls, its pastor for many years. The congregation, which built its sanctuary here on land owned by the Gospel Harp Society, grew to more than one hundred members by 1903. In 1914 trustees S.B. Belin,…