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The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has maps that show the boundaries of counties, districts, and parishes starting in 1682. [4] Historically, county government in South Carolina has been fairly weak. [5] The 1895 Constitution made no provision for local government, effectively reducing counties to creatures of the state.
A family photo of Myra Mills, the great-great-grandmother of retired Boston University professor Michelle Johnson, who traveled to South Carolina and North Carolina to research her family history.
Gilbert is a town in Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 569 at the 2010 census . It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Pineville Historic District is a national historic district located at Pineville, Berkeley County, South Carolina.It encompasses seven contributing buildings and illustrates Pineville's original role as a 19th-century pineland village, and its gradual transformation to agricultural land and to a year-round community in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
Walnut Grove Plantation, Spartanburg County Historical Association, official site; Walnut Grove Plantation; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-616, "Walnut Grove, Route 1, 1 mile East of intersection of U.S. 221 & I-26, Roebuck, Spartanburg County, SC", 16 photos, 4 color transparencies, 3 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
Wade Hampton I (1752–1835) was a lieutenant colonel in the American Revolutionary War, brigadier general in the War of 1812, a congressman, and a wealthy planter.When he died in 1835, he was considered one of the wealthiest men in America [3] with plantations in Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina; he was the wealthiest planter in the Southern United States.
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.
Cherokee County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,216. [1] The county seat is Gaffney. [2] The county was formed in 1897 from parts of York, Union, and Spartanburg counties.