Voices of Pensacola (The Beacon Building)

Prior to 1912, the Beacon Building lot stood vacant. In 1912, D. Kugelman & Co. bought the lot and hired the S.F. Fulghum &Co., General Contractors to build a new home for their business. In 1921, the Greenhut Company, a ...

The Beacon Community

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The Beacon Community was the center of Decatur’s African American community until its demolition by the Urban Renewal programs of the mid-1960s. Bounded by N. McDonough Street on the east, W. Trinity Place on the north, Water Street on ...

The Alarm Beacon

The alarm beacon was a huge pyramid-shaped structure of logs and brush usually placed on a prominent hilltop. In case of enemy invasion or other emergency situations, it was to be set on fire to notify militiamen to go to ...

Signal Beacon and the “Old Sow”

1776

Here in the time of the American Revolution stood the Signal Beacon and by its side the cannon known as the “Old Sow” which in time of danger and invasion summoned the patriotic “Minute Men” of this vicinity to the ...

The Beacon

(Aircraft Guiding Light)

In 1945, the army deeded the Walterboro Army Airfield, previously known as Anderson Airfield, jointly to the City of Walterboro and Colleton County, including all surplus equipment. The Beacon (Aircraft Guiding Light) was left as part of the ...