Main Street

Main Street began as a Native American trail that paralleled the Great Miami River. The trail took a shortcut across the east bend of the river thus creating the route that would become the center of the future City of ...

Seneca Institute / Seneca Junior College

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Seneca Institute

The Seneca Institute (later Seneca Junior College) educated African American children of this region from 1899 to 1939. It was founded and sponsored by the Seneca River Baptist Association, which in 1898 acquired eight acres here. The first ...

Haywood Motor Company

Early Ford Dealership

Haywood Motor Company

Early Ford Dealership

This property is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Built 1922

Marker is on South Main Street south of East Allenton Street (North Carolina Route 731), on the left when ...

Washington’s Southern Tour

On April 27, 1791, President George Washington spent the night nearby at the indigo plantation of Jeremiah Vereen. He wrote in his diary that he was “entertained (& very kindly) without being able to make compensation.” The next day Vereen ...

Battle of Rader's Farm

May 18, 1863

In memory of

18 U.S. Soldiers

killed in action

3 miles north of this park

Courtesy hmdb.org

A Remarkable Collection 1670-1700

Who discarded refuse into this ditch and why may never be known. The ditch was full or artifacts dating to about 1670-1700, including 10 “HH” wine bottle seals, over 1,000 clay pipe pieces, three window leads dated 1669, and the ...

Ervin "Casey" Jones House

Circa 1932

This adobe brick building was built by Deloy Abbott circa 1932. Behind the house was another adobe building used as a chicken coop. Ervin Jones purchased the home in 1941 and lived here until his death. The house was ...

May-Hartwell Site 1660-1699

Evidence from wills, deeds, land plats, patents, and court cases helps to identify structures excavated by archaeologists. When historians digitalized two 17th-century land plats and superimposed them on a modern map of Jamestown, they matched a framed structure that stood ...

St. Stephen's Church

New North Meeting House

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St. Stephen's Church

The North End’s changing ethnic and religious groups always had a good friend in St. Stephen’s Church. Originally called “New North” (to distinguish it from nearby “Old North”), it was founded ...

St. James Rosenwald School

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St. James Rosenwald School, which stood here from the late 1920s until the early 1970s, was one of several African-American schools in Horry County funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. Rev. Smart Small, Sr. (1891-1961), assisted ...