Charles Richard Wood

In Honor of

Charles Richard Wood

President, Class of 1943

A dedicated leader for the development

of this Carillon Garden.

Ever Loyal to Clemson

Marker is on Cahoun Drive, on the right when traveling west.

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The Colonial Revival Garden

Helen Hamilton Shields married Richard the Signer’s great-great-grandson Bayard Stockton in 1894. Intensely proud of the Stockton family’s history, she wished to “restore” the house and gardens to what she perceived as their former glory. Although the property was much ...

B.F. Marcos Building

This structure has been

recorded by the

Historic American

Buildings Survey

of the United States Department

of the Interior for its Archives

at the Library of Congress

Marker is on East 7th Ave.

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Custer Homestead

Near this site stood the former Custer Homestead of Emanuel and Maria Custer from 1856-1865. For two years it was the boyhood home of Captain Tom Custer, younger brother of famed General George Armstrong Custer. At age 16, Tom misled ...

Fisher's Mill on Gill Creek

About 1800, Col. Thomas Taylor erected the small building, 1/4 mile upstream, where cotton goods were woven for his plantation needs. Here John and Edward Fisher later established one of the earliest spinning mills in Richland County, using slave labor ...

Camp Hamilton

On Sacred Soil

Here stood the U.S. Army’s first camp on Virginia soil after secession, built in May 1861. Only the Veteran’s Cemetery on County Street remains of this entrenched camp.

The influx of soldiers at Fort Monroe prompted the commander, Lt. ...

Sevier’s Birthplace

Near here was born John Sevier, pioneer and soldier, September 23, 1745. He was a leader in the Indian Wars and the Battle of King’s Mountain, 1780. He was the only governor of the short-lived state of Franklin and the ...

Cook County

This County, created by Act of the Legislature July 30, 1918, is named for Gen. Philip Cook who fought in the States and Seminole Wars. He served in Congress from 1872 to '82, was Secretary of State for Georgia 1890-94 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Father

Four miles west, Thomas Lincoln, father of the President, was born about 1778. He was taken to Kentucky by his father about 1781. Beside the road here was Lincoln Inn, long kept by a member of the family.

Marker is on ...

Morgan's Raid Route / Chester Village Commons

Side A: Morgan's Raid Route

General John Hunt Morgan of Kentucky led a force of Confederate calvarymen into Meigs County during a forty-six-day raid north of the Ohio River. The advance forces burned Benjamin Knight's carding mill and sawmill, the Shade ...