Rock Hill Cotton Factory

[Front]:

This textile mill, built in 1881, was the first in Rock Hill and the first in S.C. to use steam power. A.E. Hutchison, J.M. Ivy, W.L. Roddey, and A.H. White founded the Rock Hill Cotton Factory to boost the city's ...

Rock Hill Depots / Rock Hill Street Railway

Rock Hill Depots

The first of six railroad depots nearby was built in 1851 on the Charlotte & S.C. RR, after the citizens of Ebenezer objected to a new railroad yard proposed there. The town that grew up here was named ...

Swampscott World War Honor Roll

[ south side ]

Honor Roll

World War

Leon E Abbott • Isaac M Adams • Lawrence W Adams • Antonio Alfonsi • Frank Alley • Christian S Ambye • Arvid S Anderson • Harry Anderson • Michael Arribea • Michael Asconti • ...

Belmont County Veterans Memorial

This memorial

erected by the

people of

Belmont County

dedicated to

the veterans

of all wars

Courtesy hmdb.org

White's Factory

(1831)

A mill dam was first built on this site in 1746. About 1799, William White, Sr. built a stone water-powered cotton mill for himself and three of his sons, Phineas, William and Benjamin. That mill, one of the earliest in ...

Planters Bank Building

The Neo-Classical style 1920 building, designed by noted architect Uzzell Branson, originally housed Citizens Bank, then, First State Bank, a mercantile store, and City Hall. A citizens group, including Congressman W.J. Driver, opened Planters Bank in May 1944. The property ...

Swampscott Korean War Honor Roll

Korean War Honor Roll

James S. Abbott • Henry E. Ackler, Jr. • George Richard Adams • George V. Anderson • Jay H. Anderson • Loring H. Anderson • Victor M. Antoniello • George H. Arrington • George J. Arroll • ...

Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Ferguson's (South Carolina) Battery.

4 - 12 pdr. Napoleons.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Walker's Division, Hardee's Corps.

1st Lieut. R. T. Beauregard, Commanding.

1st Lieut. M. D. Calhoun.

2d Lieut. J. A. Aulston.

Nov. 25th, 1863.

The battery came into position on the crest of ...

“The Baylor Massacre”

September 28, 1778

Late one night in 1778, the woods you are standing in suddenly echoed with the sounds of battle. A surprise attack by British soldiers nearly destroyed an American regiment, Baylor’s 3rd Continental Light Dragoons. Today, this park tells ...

Monument to Women of the Confederacy

(South face)

Our Mothers

To the women of the Confederacy “Whose pious ministrations to our wounded soldiers soothed the last hours of those who died far from the objects of their tenderest love, whose domestic labors contributed much to supply the wants ...