To the Glory of God

This original stone which formed one of the four

Pillars of the first building of Tyger Baptist

Church, the first in this area of South Carolina

near the head of Tyger River, about the year 1800.

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my ...

Sardis Church

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Sardis Church, about 2 miles West on this Road, is the oldest church in Charlton County. Constituted some time before 1821, the first edifice was built in this area. The church was moved to or near its ...

Mary Potter Academy

Founded by G.C. Shaw 1889 to educate African Americans. Named for a Presbyterian benefactor. Later a public school. Operated one block east.

Marker is at the intersection of College Street (U.S. 15) and East McClanahan Street, on the right when traveling ...

Wilmington & Western Railroad

The Wilmington and Western Railroad. A 20-mile track between Wilmington and Landenberg (PA) was built in 1872 to furnish passenger and freight service to the communities and industry along the red clay valley. In 1883, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ...

Westerville

“The Dry Capital of the World”

This building and grounds were the national headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League of America after September 14 1909. The American Issue Publishing Co. and the Temperance Education Foundation were also headquartered here. The work of ...

Kilbourntown

In this vicinity, Kilbourntown, one of the three original Milwaukee settlements, was founded by surveyor and land speculator Byron Kilbourn in 1835. Kilbourntown’s first residents were entrepreneurs from the East. In 1839, a small group of German immigrants from Pomerania ...

First Protest against Slavery

Here in 1688, at the home of Tunes Kunders, an eloquent protest was written by a group of German Quakers. Signed by Pastorius and three others, it preceded by 92 years Pennsylvania’s passage of the nation’s first abolition law.

Marker ...

Restoration and Development

Reedy River Falls Historic Park

The Carolina Foothills Garden Club, beginning in 1967, spearheaded efforts to reclaim the long-neglected site of Greenville's birthplace and to preserve its natural beauty along the banks of the reedy River. The City of Greenville endorsed ...

111th Infantry Regiment

(Front):In remembrance of those members of this

Regiment who lost their lives defending

their country's honor fighting against

tyranny and for justice and liberty of all

nations, the weak as well as the mighty

111th Infantry

1917 - 6th PNG - 18th PNG

1921 - 3rd PNG ...

The Burnet Bulletin

Established in the early 1870s, this weekly newspaper has been in continuous operation for more than one hundred years. The first editor on record was George Whitaker, who served in that position until 1874. In 1898, the paper was sold ...