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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WK_anderson-county-confederate-monument_Anderson-SC.html
[North]:(Palmetto Tree)(Crossed swords in scabbards with a laurel wreath - representing the cavalry.)(Confederate Battle Flag)"Though conquered, we adore it!Love the cold dead hands that bore it!"
[West]:(Furled Stainless Banner)(Cannon wheel, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WH_first-presbyterian-church_Anderson-SC.html
Organized Sept. 23, 1837 on land given by J. N. Whitner. First frame structure was built in 1839. Anderson's first cemetery is here, and city's first Sunday School was organized here about 1855. Present sanctuary's cornerstone was laid in 1879. Ki…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VS_portman-dam-and-power-plant_Anderson-SC.html
[Front Marker]:In 1889, the City of Anderson contracted with a 26 year old native son, an engineering graduate of the University of South Carolina, to build a steam power plant and water system for the city. Keeping up with the engineering achieve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VR_portman-shoals_Anderson-SC.html
Half mile West on Seneca Riverthe Portman Shoals Power Plant,built by William C. Whitner,began in 1897 the transmissionof high-voltage electricity overthe longest lines then in use forthat purpose in the United States.The success of this plant,now…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VQ_william-church-whitner_Anderson-SC.html
Native son William Church Whitner developed the concept and spearheaded financing for the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power over a long distance in the South. On May 1, 1895, electricity travelled six miles from a generator at High Shoal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VP_anderson-the-electric-city_Anderson-SC.html
Front:Anderson was dubbed "The Electric City" in 1895 when William C. Whitner, an engineer and native of Anderson, built a hydroelectric power plant which was the first in the South to transmit electricity over long distances. The plant, in McFall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VO_anderson-county-court-house-1898_Anderson-SC.html
This is Anderson County's second court house. It stands on the site of the first small brick court house where the first court session in Anderson was held on the third Monday in October, 1820. The present building of pronounced Victorian architec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6RS_william-bullein-johnson_Anderson-SC.html
President of Triennial Southern, South Carolina Baptist Conventions. Johnson Female University founded here in 1848 as Johnson Female Seminary was named for him because of his support for female education. From 1853 to 1858, while Chancellor of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6RQ_university-hill_Anderson-SC.html
Three educational institutions have been in this immediate area: Johnson Female University (1856-63) named for William Bullein Johnson; the Carolina Collegiate Institute (about 1866-90) under W. J. Ligon; and Patrick Military Institute (1887-1900)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6PJ_grace-episcopal-church_Anderson-SC.html
FrontThis Parish, organized in 1851 with the Rev. Benjamin Webb as its first vicar, grew out of occasional Episcopal services held in Anderson as early as 1844. The first church here, a frame Carpenter Gothic building, was completed in 1860 on lan…