Welcome to Historic Edgefield

Home of Ten Governors

Andrew Pickens, II * George McDuffie

* P.M. Butler * J.H. Hammond

* Francis Pickins * M.L. Bonham

* J.C. Sheppard * Ben Tillman

* J.G. Evans * Strom Thurmond

" Edgefield has had

more ...

Edgefield

(Front text)

Edgefield was founded in 1785 as the county seat and site of the new courthouse and jail for Edgefield County, created out of the old Ninety-Six District. Also called Edgefield Village or Edgefield Court House, it was described ...

Wedgefield Presbyterian Church

(Front text)

This church was founded in 1881 with assistance from Harmony Presbytery. It had 12 charter members, with elders Cornelius McLaurin and James Caldwell and deacons Dr. Henry J. McLaurin and Edward H. McCutchen. Rev. H.B. Garris, Wedgefield’s first ...

Piedmont Technical College, Edgefield Center

Originally Adams' Warehouse

W.W. Adams, a prosperous Edgefield merchant and longtime Edgefield mayor, built this building in 1907 as a warehouse to serve the needs of cotton founders. The Edgefield Chronicle noted in that year: "The great brick warehouse of Mr. ...

Town of Edgefield Parking Lot

Formerly Southern Railroad Depot Site

The parking lot adjacent to this building is the site where the Southern Railroad Depot was located for many years. When the railroad arrived in Edgefield in 1888, the depot was located a quarter mile south ...

Edgefield United Methodist Church / The Reverend Joseph Moore

Edgefield United Methodist Church

By 1841, this congregation was established and was a member of the Edgefield circuit. The present structure was dedicated in November of 1892 by Bishop W.W. Duncan. The Reverend Joseph Moore sold to the church the land ...

Governors and Lieutenant Governors from Edgefield

A tribute to the Governers

and Lieutenant Governors of South

Carolina who were

natives of or at one time

residents of Edgefield

District or County.

Governors

Andrew Pickens II (1816-18)

George McDuffie (1834-36)

Pierce Mason Butler (1836-38)

James H. Hammond (1842-44)

Francis W. Pickens (1860-62)

Milledge L. Bonham (1862-64)

John C. Sheppard (July-Dec. ...

Welcome to Historic Edgefield

Home to Ten South Carolina Governors

This Court House Square, which was identified as the site of the courthouse and jail for the newly established Edgefield District in 1785, has been the center of life here for over two centuries. ...

Edgefield County Confederate Monument

Erected by the

Women

of

Edgefield, S.C.

to the Memory

of their Confederate

Dead.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Edgefield County Veterans Memorial

[Front]:

Dedicated

in grateful tribute

to the men and women

of Edgefield County

who served in the armed

forces of our country

during World War I-II

and Korean War in

preserving our freedom

and our way of life.

[Reverse]:

Dedicated

in grateful tribute

to the men and women

of Edgefield County

who served in the

armed forces ...