The Home of Colby Cheese

At his father's cheese factory about one mile south and one mile west of here, Joseph F. Steinwand in 1885 developed a new and unique type of cheese. He named it for the township in which his father, Ambrose Steinwand, ...

Lutheran Publication Society

To commemorate

the founding

of the

Lutheran

Publication Society

at a meeting held in

Trinity

Lutheran Church

May 1st, 1855

The Board of Publication

of the

United Lutheran Church in America

1955

Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue ...

Ney School / Back Swamp School

Ney School

About 1843 Robert Rogers (1808-1882), a planter at "Blooming Grove" in the Back Swamp community of what was then Darlington District, built a plantation schoolhouse and hired Peter Stuart Ney (d. 1846) to teach his children. The original ...

Grumblethorpe

Built 1744

John Wister’s

Big House

The Philadelphia Society

for the

Preservation of Landmarks

Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and W Queen Lane, on the right when traveling north on Germantown Avenue.

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Joel Roberts Poinsett

1779-1851

[Front]:

Born in Charleston, S.C., educated in this country and Great Britain, he travelled widely in Europe and Asia before returning to a distinguished career. He served South Carolina in the state legislature, 1816-1820; 1830-1832; and as Chairman of the Board ...

Bethlehem Methodist Church

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Bethlehem Methodist Church, second oldest Methodist Church in Georgia and formerly known as Thompson’s Meeting House, sponsored the First Methodist Annual Conference in Georgia, on April 9, 1788. Bishop Asbury and his party, delayed by weather and illness, held the ...

Robert Gibbes

1644-1715

Early Barbadian supporter of the settlement of South Carolina Colonial Governor 1710-1712

Proprietor's Deputy Chief Justice of South Carolina

Member of 1st Assembly Colonel South Carolina Militia

Sent South Carolina Militia to aid North Carolinians

against the Tuscarora Indians

The Philadelphia Contributionship

for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire

Oldest fire insurance company in America. Founded in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin and his friends.

Marker is on S. 4th Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Terryville Congregational Church Bell

This Bell Rang In The Original

Terryville Congregational Church Bell Tower

Until 1967

When The Structure Was Destroyed By Fire.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 6) and Prospect Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.

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Hopewell Presbyterian Church

[Front] This church, organized ca. 1770, is the first Presbyterian church in what is now Florence County. Many of its founding families came to S.C. from Scotland and Ireland. The first church here, a frame building, stood across Old River ...