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Millwood is the site and ruins of an antebellum plantation house at 6100 Garner's Ferry Road , Columbia, South Carolina. Owned by Colonel Wade Hampton II and his wife Ann Fitzsimmons Hampton, it was the boyhood home of their first son Wade Hampton III and other children. He later became a Confederate general and later, South Carolina governor ...
Wade Hampton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 20,622 at the 2010 census. [5] It is named for American Civil War general and South Carolina governor Wade Hampton. Wade Hampton is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The property became a favorite hunting preserve for the Hampton family and their friends. Young Wade Hampton III learned to ride horses at High Hampton, a skill that served him well as a leading Confederate cavalry commander during the American Civil War. [2] In the 1880s, the property passed into the hands of Hampton II's three daughters.
The Hampton Roads Conference was a peace conference held between the United States and representatives of the unrecognized breakaway Confederate States on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat River Queen in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to discuss terms to end the American Civil War.
Hampden Coit DuBose (30 September 1845 in Darlington, South Carolina – 22 March 1910 [1] in Suzhou) was a Presbyterian missionary in China with the American Presbyterian Mission (South) and founder of the Anti-Opium League in China.
Wade Hampton I (c. 1752 – 1835), American general, Congressman, and planter. One of the largest slave-holders in the country, he was alleged to have conducted experiments on the people he enslaved. [138] [139] Wade Hampton II (1791–1858), American soldier and planter with land holdings in three states. He held a total of 335 slaves in ...
The Hampton–Preston House located at 1615 Blanding Street in Columbia, South Carolina, is a historic mansion that was the home of members of the prominent Hampton family. [2] [3] It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 29, 1969. [1] Ainsley Hall, a wealthy Columbia merchant, had the house constructed in 1818.
Jarrell, Hampton M. Wade Hampton and the Negro: The Road Not Taken. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969. OCLC 2774253. Andrew, Rod, Jr. Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (2008) Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas ; Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4.