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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RH_hopkins-farm_Simpsonville-SC.html
[Marker Front]:This farm has been owned by the Hopkins family since 1834, when John Hopkins (1793-1837) purchased it from William Toney. The Greek Revival main house was built ca. 1840, with later additions ca. 1890 and ca. 1925. Hopkins' widow, L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5Q8_clayton-peg-leg-bates_Fountain-Inn-SC.html
[Southwest]:Don't look at me in sympathy, I'm glad I'm this way for I feel good and I'm knocking on wood, as long as I can say you just watch me peg it. You can tell by the way I leg it that I'm Peg Leg Bates, the one legged dancing man. I mix lik…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5Q7_sullivan-grove-cemetery_Honea-Path-SC.html
The cemetery located about ½ mile north, marks the site of Grove Church, established prior to 1790, one of the first Methodist churches in Greenville County. The present church, renamed Lebanon, is located about 1? miles W. of here. A number …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5Q3_lebanon-united-methodist-church_Honea-Path-SC.html
This United Methodist Church was originally located about 1? miles east and named the Grove. It was visited by Bishop Francis Asbury in 1790 and 1800. Relocated about ½ mile SW of here after the land was obtained 1832. Present house of worship wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O8_tullyton_Fountain-Inn-SC.html
This house was built by T.C. Booling c. 1840 near the old indian boundary. C.B. Stewart minister of nearby Fairview Presbyterian Church lived here 1859-1890.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5O7_fairview-church-fairview-cemetery_Fountain-Inn-SC.html
(Front): Settlers from the Nazareth area of Spartanburg County founded this Presbyterian church in 1786 on land ceded by the Cherokee Indians in the treaty of DeWitt's Corner, 1777. It is said that three buildings, two of logs and one of brick, pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CW_campbells-covered-bridge_Landrum-SC.html
This bridge, built in 1909, is the last extant covered bridge in S.C. Built by Charles Irwin Willis (1878-1966), it was named for Alexander Lafayette Campbell (1836-1920), who owned and operated a grist mill here for many years. Measuring 35 feet …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5CV_christ-church-episcopal_Greenville-SC.html
Started in 1820 as St. James' Mission, the first church built here in 1825 on land given by Vardry McBee, was consecrated in 1828 by Bishop Nathaniel Bowen as Christ Church. The present church was built 1852-54 with Rev. John D. McCollough as arch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5BA_old-fountain-inn_Fountain-Inn-SC.html
According to traditionan ante-bellum innwith a gushing fountainin the front yardstood near hereon the old stage roadbetweenGreenville and Columbia
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5B9_cherokee-boundary-1767_Greer-SC.html
[Front]:In 1766-67 S.C. & N.C. negotiated with the Cherokee to establish a boundary between Indian land to the west and new settlement to the east. This north-south line ran past this point to N.C. and on to Va. In S.C. it ran north from near pres…