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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIID_site-of-manchester_Sumter-SC.html
A flourishing town once stood here; Settled before 1799; Stage-coach relay; Shipping center for cotton traffic by boat to Charleston; A busy point on Wilmington & Manchester Railroad, 1852-1872, (station was 1 mile southeast); Noted for its tavern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIIC_early-charleston-road_Sumter-SC.html
This road largely followed the Catawba Path (1698). Widened by Public Act, 1753, and called "The Great Charleston Road," it joined that city with Camden and "The Back Country." Over it came Indians, pack-animals laden with hides, drovers, rolled h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIHJ_richard-richardson_Pinewood-SC.html
An early plantation owner in this area, he was a Commissioner of St. Mark's Church who donated land for its construction. He was Magistrate and Delegate to the First and Second Provincial Congresses. In the Revolution he was Colonel in the Snow Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIHI_col-david-dubose-gaillard_Pinewood-SC.html
[Front]:Born at Fulton Crossroads, Sept. 4, 1859, David DuBose Gaillard spent his boyhood in this section. He was graduated from West Point in 1884, rising to rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers. During the Spanish American War he organized an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGZ_general-thomas-sumter_Dalzell-SC.html
(Front text) Monument to General Sumter stands 500 yards south. Born August 14, 1734, in Hanover County, Virginia, he was a frontiersman and Indian fighter. Coming to South Carolina by 1764, he became a planter. As Partisan leader and later brigad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIG7_sumter-district-confederate-dead_Sumter-SC.html
(East face)Decr 20 1860 — · — The Women of Sumter District to their Confederate Dead— · — Erected 1876 by The Ladies Monumental Assoc. of Sumter District Deeded to Dick Anderson Chapter no. 75, Inc., United …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIDW_skirmish-at-dinkins-mill_Rembert-SC.html
(Front text) Following the battle of Boykin's Mill on April 18, 1865, Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter advanced south to Middleton's Depot, on the Wilmington & Manchester R.R. below Stateburg. Here, on April 19, they attacke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBC_first-baptist-church_Sumter-SC.html
(Front text) Organized in 1813 with 13 members, this branch of Stateburg's High Hills of Santee Baptist Church (founded before 1772) became an independent congregation on September 24, 1820. It became known as Sumterville Baptist Church, and among…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI9R_temple-sinai_Sumter-SC.html
(Front text) Sumter's Jewish community, dating to 1815, has long been one of the largest and most influential in inland S.C. Mark Solomons, Franklin J. Moses, and Montgomery Moses brought their families to Sumter District from the old and well-est…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI9P_enon-baptist-church_Sumter-SC.html
This church was organized in 1872 by Rev. Benjamin Lawson and held early services in a brush arbor. The first sanctuary, a log building, was built about 1883, during the ministry of Rev. S.B.Taylor; its timbers were reused to build a frame sanctua…
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