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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C0H_beth-shalom-cemetery_Columbia-SC.html
In 1883 members of Columbia's Jewish community founded the Hebrew Cemetery Society of Columbia as an alternative to the Hebrew Benevolent Society's cemetery, which had been established in 1822. The organization purchased a 4-acre tract bounded by …
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Dentsville Consolidated School opened at this site in 1926. The brick building was the first school in the newly created Richland Two school district and served students who had previously attended numerous, smaller schools in the area. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BRG_broad-river_Columbia-SC.html
Early boundary between Cherokee and Catawba Indians. Name first applied about 1745. Faust's Ford, 2 mi. above, used in Revolution. First bridge opened 1829, burned 1865 to delay Sherman's army which crossed on pontoon bridges downstream. Bridge re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQI_bethlehem-church-i_Irmo-SC.html
The organization date of this Lutheran church is unknown. In 1788, however, Bethlehem and fourteen other churches signed the articles of the "Corpus Evangelicum," an early church supervising body. By 1815, Bethlehem's first known building had been…
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Bethlehem Lutheran Church erected its first known building about 350 feet north of here on a 17-acre tract purchased from George Metz in 1817. According to tradition, the church was first called Ellisor Church after people of this name living near…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQE_little-zion-baptist-church_Blythewood-SC.html
The congregation at Little Zion dates to c. 1832, when enslaved individuals worshipped in white-controlled churches. After emancipation, these former slaves founded independent congregations like this one. A group led by Doctor Entzminger purchase…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQC_bethel-lutheran-church_White-Rock-SC.html
This church, organized in 1762 by German colonists, is one of the first Lutheran congregations in the Dutch Fork region. Incorporated in 1788 as "the German Lutheran Church of Bethel on High Hill Creek," it first met in a log church 3.5 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25G1_burning-of-columbia_Columbia-SC.html
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Due to Columbia's strategic value, capture of the city was an objective of the Union Army during the Carolina's Campaign of 1865. By Feb. 15 Union forces had moved to within 4 miles of the city and met opposition from Confederate skirmis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25G0_congaree-vista_Columbia-SC.html
Historically a residential, light industrial, mercantile and transportation district, the Congaree Vista is bounded by the Congaree River to the west and Assembly Street to the east. To its north lies Arsenal Hill, while the Olympia Mill community…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Z5_african-american-heroes-of-the-371st-regiment_Columbia-SC.html
In tribute & honor to the gallant African American heroes of of the 371st Infantry Regiment 93rd Division "Colored" of World War I.
They were South Carolinians sent into the bloody trenches of World War I. These brave black soldiers survived on…