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George Galphin became a highly respected trader among the Lower Creek tribes in the Georgia and South Carolina region within a few years of arriving in America. Adair praised his skill in negotiating with the Creek to stay neutral during the French and Indian Wars (1760–1761). [3] Eventually he came to own the Silver Bluff trading post. In ...
In addition to its ten governors of South Carolina listed below, Edgefield County was the home of numerous local notables: George Galphin (1709–1780);Samuel Hammond (1757–1842); Parson Mason Locke Weems (1759–1825); Rebecca "Becky" Cotton (1765–1807); Billy Porter (aka “Billy the Fiddler”), a slave (1771–1821); Rev. William ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of South Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1 ...
It is displayed in the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum. Monument to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy (1912), [1] a bronze monument by Frederic W. Ruckstull. [4] Wade Hampton III Confederate Monument (1906), [1] 16-foot bronze equestrian statue, also by Frederick Ruckstull. There is also a statue of him within ...
Location of Edgefield County in South Carolina. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Edgefield County, South Carolina.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States.
Both sides of U.S. 25 through town of Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina Coordinates 33°49′58″N 81°48′04″W / 33.83278°N 81.80111°W / 33.83278; -81
An inside look at The George Hotel and the attached Independent Restaurant on Front Street in Georgetown, S.C. The fifty-six room boutique hotel sits over looking the Georgetown Harbor waterfront ...
The Horn's Creek Church Museum is now open by appointment. For those more interested in the detailed history of the Church, copies of The Early History of Horn's Creek Church by Bettis C. Rainsford are available by contacting the Edgefield County Historical Society, P. O. Box 174, Edgefield, SC 29824, 803-637-2233. For those wanting to visit ...