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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFRE_waxhaw-presbyterian-church-monument_Lancaster-SC.html
[Marker Front]The first church in upper So. Car. This 4½ acre tract was deeded to the congregation by Robert Miller school teacher and minister, Mar.9, 1758. The first pastor was Rev. Wm. Richardson, 1759-1771. The earliest building of logs w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFRD_waxhaw-presbyterian-church_Lancaster-SC.html
About 3 miles W. is Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, organized 1755, first church in upper South Carolina. President Andrew Jackson, born nearby, was baptized there. His father lies in the churchyard with other early settlers of the Waxhaws and many ve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFRC_boundary-line_Lancaster-SC.html
One of the last refinements in the N.C.-S.C. boundary was marked with a stone inscribed "1813" and located about ½ mile SE of here. This adjustment was made because of uncertainty in location of the Salisbury Road which had served as north-so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFR8_stephen-decatur-miller_Lancaster-SC.html
[Marker Front]:Governor of South Carolina from 1828 until 1830, Miller was born near here May 8, 1787, the son of Charles and Margaret White Miller. He served in the US House of Representatives (1822-1828), and US Senate (1831-1833). He died March…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFR4_birthplace-of-andrew-jackson-monument_Lancaster-SC.html
[Carving Side]"I was born in So Carolina, as I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about one mile from the Carolina Road X of the Waxhaw Creek" Andrew Jackson to J.H. Witherspoon, August 11, 1824.
Jackson said in his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFR2_the-boy-of-the-waxhaws_Lancaster-SC.html
This statue of the young Andrew Jackson is a gift to the children of South Carolina by the sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington. Children of the elementary schools throughout the state contributed their nickel and dimes for the base.
"We, the childr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFQY_jackson-comes-home_Lancaster-SC.html
Andrew Jackson, champion of the common, is a larger-than-life hero. He has been memorialized throughout American history. The idea of commemorating Jackson with a statue in the land of his birth was conceived by Perry Belle Hough of the Lancaster …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFQU_school-days-in-the-waxhaws_Lancaster-SC.html
When Andrew Jackson was a boy, he attended log-cabin schools much like this replica. In this backcountry region of devout, hard working Scotch-Irish immigrants, most children learned enough at local "common" schools to read the Bible and run their…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFQR_heart-of-the-community_Lancaster-SC.html
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians called their worship places Meeting Houses to emphasize that the structure is a building and that the church is the body of believers. The community came to the Meeting House not only to worship, but also for recreation,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFQO_birthplace-of-andrew-jackson_Lancaster-SC.html
Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born.