The Original Back Door Step
of the
Flat Rock Union Church
Dedicated October 9, 1988
Flat Rock Presbyterian Church
Chartered November 10, 1888
Flat Rock Baptist Church
Chartered November 17, 1832 — — Map (db m54639) HM
Named in honor of
Wilton E. Hall
Publisher of
The Anderson Independent
and
Daily Mail
For his dedicated service
to Anderson County
and South Carolina — — Map (db m19493) HM
This was the second Negro church founded in Anderson. It was organized at a meeting of approximately 15 persons at the home of the Rev. Henry A. Mikell, who served as the first pastor. A lot was purchased from Bale Clayton for $100 and a small . . . — — Map (db m11745) HM
Three educational institutions have been in this immediate area: Johnson Female University (1856-63) named for William Bullein Johnson; the Carolina Collegiate Institute (about 1866-90) under W. J. Ligon; and Patrick Military Institute (1887-1900), . . . — — Map (db m10524) HM
Whyte House
The west wing of this building was
constructed in 1920 and is named
in honor of
James Primrose Whyte
Dean and beloved Professor of
Literature and Sociology at
Anderson College from 1918 to 1922.
John E. White . . . — — Map (db m19784) HM
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Vietnam
1957 ---
Dedicated to the memory and honor of all Anderson County Vietnam veterans. They will always be remembered for their sacrifices and their . . . — — Map (db m84131) WM
Out of Whose Vision, Leadership and Love to Humanity was Born a New Hospital
Virginia "Jennie" Gilmer is widely recognized as the founder of Anderson's first hospital, which over the years evolved into Anmed Health, the largest private . . . — — Map (db m59427) HM
This structure once housed the Anderson County Airport's Weather Reporting Station. Located across the street where the Civic Center is now and constructed in 1931 at a cost between $5500 and $6000, this building was designed to provide shelter . . . — — Map (db m15327) HM
In Memory of World War Casualties
War No. I
Thomas Adjer
Scott Hill
Ollie Rutledge
War No. II
James Joyner
Johnnie M. Leroy
Frank Lewis
John M. McBride
Mayor
Richard A. Shirley
City Manager
John R. . . . — — Map (db m49493) HM
William A. Floyd, a man of vision, served Anderson County as the first African-American elected to the Anderson County Council. He touched the lives of many county residents in various ways, as a husband, father, teacher, coach, councilman, . . . — — Map (db m21328) HM
President of Triennial Southern, South Carolina Baptist Conventions. Johnson Female University founded here in 1848 as Johnson Female Seminary was named for him because of his support for female education. From 1853 to 1858, while Chancellor of . . . — — Map (db m10526) HM
Native son William Church Whitner developed the concept and spearheaded financing for the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power over a long distance in the South. On May 1, 1895, electricity travelled six miles from a generator at High . . . — — Map (db m10695) HM
This facility was originally built in 1951 and was the cafeteria for the McCants Middle School. Renovation of the space for Meals on Wheels was completed in 2000 to allow for the expansion of the successful community program, which was begin in . . . — — Map (db m59442) HM
i>[Front]
In honor of the
World War veterans of
Anderson County, 1914-1918
Erected by the
American Legion Auxiliary
W.H. Hudgens Unit No. 14
1933
[Reverse]
In honor of the
World War veterans of
Anderson . . . — — Map (db m10673) WM
On this site stood the third building erected by Whitefield Baptist Church. The building was used by the Congregation for worship and fellowship until 1957.
Erected as a memorial to God's blessings by his people at this sacred place. — — Map (db m36637) HM
Belton
The Tennis Capital of South Carolina
Tennis Anyone?
Long know as the Tennis Capital of South Carolina, Belton's tennis history can be traced back over 110 years. An 1892 edition of the Anderson Intelligencer . . . — — Map (db m35564) HM
Belton Academy
This site, on a lot donated by Dr. George Brown, was the location of a school for more than a century, Belton Academy, a private school with a classical curriculum, opened ca. 1851 as the town grew up around the new railroad . . . — — Map (db m81782) HM
Replacing the wooden structure located across the street that had served the Belton Community since 1853, the brick Southern & Blue Ridge Combined Railway Depot was designed in 1907 and completed by 1910. In the heyday of passenger and freight train . . . — — Map (db m31012) HM
[Front Center]:
In this place we honor all those who served in the Armed Forces and reflect upon their dedication to duty and country. We recognize the hardships they endured to protect our freedoms and the ultimate sacrifice of life . . . — — Map (db m10757) HM
This house, built c. 1854 for railroad supervisor Charles C. Chamberlain, was among the first homes constructed in Belton. When the town incorporated in 1855, Chamberlain was chosen as the first intendent. Ira Williams, who was active in . . . — — Map (db m87307) HM
In honor of the
men and women
serving our country
Dorchester Baptist Church
1941-1945
Breazeale, Thomas C
Cox, James B
Cox, William N
Cox, Fred N
Cox, Charles M
Fullbright, Bessie V
Fullbright, Ralph M
Keys, William R . . . — — Map (db m36667) HM
Greenville & Columbia RR
The Greenville & Columbia Railroad, founded in 1845, began construction in 1849. It reached Greenville in 1853, with a branch at this point to Anderson - the Blue Ridge Railroad. The town of Belton grew up around the . . . — — Map (db m35635) HM
This building served as a classroom and
dormitory for the former Union High School
Dedicated
"To The Glory of God"
July 20, 1991
The Reverend R.H. Mitchell -- Moderator at Renovation
Dr. Earl J. Mathis -- At Dedication
. . . — — Map (db m10752) HM
The National Register
of Historic Places:
The Belton
Standpipe
Dedication Plaque:
The Belton Standpipe
Historical Landmark Built 1908, Restored 1990
Placed on the State and National Archive's Register 1987
Mayor . . . — — Map (db m31166) HM
This land, Cherokee territory until 1777, became the final resting place after the American Revolution for early pioneers who settled the area. A number of soldiers of the Revolution are buried here including Robert Pickens, who served in the . . . — — Map (db m9087) HM
[Front]:
This church, founded in 1803, held its first services in the home of John Wilson and was first known as Wilson's Chapel. That year the congregation bought two acres here from George Head; the first church on this site was built . . . — — Map (db m47088) HM
Founded in 1821, this is the boyhood church and burial place of Olin D. Johnston. He was decorated for bravery in World War I, served in the S.C. House of Representatives, was twice Governor of S.C., in 1935-1939 and 1943-1945, and U.S. Senator from . . . — — Map (db m9335) HM
Honea Path is the smallest town of the fourteen South Carolina communities with libraries funded by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. Dr. John Wright, Mayor John Humbert, and Miss Jennie Erwin were leaders in obtaining the $5000 grant. The Honea . . . — — Map (db m10759) HM
Rang from 1924 until 1959
August, 1980
Rang for 75th Anniversary
Mr. Ben L. Davis (Uncle Ben, as he was
called) rang the bell until his retirement in
1958. The bell was rung at 9:00 am and
10:00 am and 10:30 am and 11:00 am. . . . — — Map (db m38380) HM
[West Inscription]:
James David Hammett
March 16, 1868
April 16, 1924.
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The founder and president
of this company.
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"And what doth the lord require
of thee but to do justly, love
mercy and walk humbly with . . . — — Map (db m37530) HM
(Front)
Once Cherokee hunting grounds, the area was opened in 1784 by settlers obtaining grants for Revolutionary War service. Listed on early maps as Craytons, this crossroad became a thriving community in the early 1800s, featuring a . . . — — Map (db m238535) HM
[West Facing]:
Came to the colonies and received a land grant from King George III in 1770 in the area known as the 96 District of South Carolina. In 1791 he moved to this locality and accepted a land grant from Charles Pinckney, . . . — — Map (db m40637) HM
[Front]:
Native American Trade and the "Honey Path"
Town historians long debated the origin of the unusual name "Honea Path." Some attribute it to settler William Honey, who purchased 200 acres northeast of town in 1788. Others say . . . — — Map (db m11252) HM
In memory of Honea Path veteran
who gave their lives for their country
and in honor of those who served.
War Between the States
[Left Column}: Reuben B. Kay, George Ballentine, James L. Bagwell, Jr., Pleasant Bagwell, John J. . . . — — Map (db m10761) HM
(Front)
Built in the 1790s by Virginian James Kay, on land granted him by Governor Charles Pinckney in 1792. Kay was a blacksmith and ran a stagecoach stop here, along what was then known as the Charleston Road. The house was built of sawn . . . — — Map (db m238548) HM
Depicted in this mural is the first true American - the Eastern Cherokee. The Cherokee
were pushed out of their homeland by settlers of Scotch-Irish descent who arrived by
Conestoga wagons crossing the Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountains.
In . . . — — Map (db m238541) HM
The talk was the dream of Rev. J.A. Marler, Pastor, to have a church bell. The members were too poor to buy one. Several men began to make plans to purchase a bell by raising money through pledges. Mr. George Lollis, Chairman of Chiquola . . . — — Map (db m38458) HM
These men were killed in Honea Path on September 6, 1934 in the General Textile Strike. This monument is dedicated to their memory, to their families and to all workers.
Claude Cannon, E.M. Knight
Lee Crawford, Maxie Peterson
Ira Davis, C.L. . . . — — Map (db m41259) HM
This building and lot donated to the Town of Iva and the Iva District 10 Fire Department by W. Parker Bowie and his wife Marie T. Bowie in honor of his father Luther E. Bowie and his mother Lucia P. Bowie.
Dedicated to the citizens of this . . . — — Map (db m54816) HM
This church, the first Associate Reformed Presbyterian congregation in what is now Anderson County, was organized about 1790 about 1 1/2 mi. SW of this site. Rev. Robert Irwin, its first regular minister, served from 1803 until his death in . . . — — Map (db m11747) HM
Oldest Presbyterian Church in continuous existence in Anderson County. Organized in 1789. First pastor, Rev. John Simpson. Congregation worshipped at three sites nears Generostee Creek, three miles west of Iva. Old cemetery at third site. . . . — — Map (db m9479) HM
This marker designated the third site of this church. Since 1909, the new church, built at
Iva, S.C., has continued to carry on the
faithful witness of our Lord.
Pastors
Rev. John Simpson 1790-1807
Rev. David Humphreys 1821-1869 . . . — — Map (db m19954) HM
This cemetery, dating from the early 19th century, is at the third site of Good Hope Presbyterian Church, founded in 1789. A frame sanctuary was built here in 1856 during the tenure of Rev. David Humphreys (d. 1869), who preached here 1821-1869 . . . — — Map (db m19945) HM
A "Great" Town
In 1886, the Savannah Valley railroad made its way into lower Anderson County. The depot town of Cook's Station was named for Dr. Augustus G. Cook, a local physician and businessman. The town was later called Iva in honor of . . . — — Map (db m43944) HM
[Center]
In memory of those from our community who made the supreme sacrifice in order that w might continue to live in a free and prosperous nation with liberty and justice for all.
[Left Column]
WWI
Robert Latham, Morge . . . — — Map (db m54781) HM
[Front]:
At this site once stood the town of Moffettsville, originating with the establishment of Moffett's Mills Post Office on February 16, 1818. By 1883, the town had a population of twenty-five with a physician and general store. . . . — — Map (db m23812) HM
This beautiful mural of the Old Iva Depot erected in 1886 with the C. & W.C. Train, painted by artist Oscar Velasquez, is dedicated to our forebears, to the churches and citizens of our community for their contribution to the growth of the town . . . — — Map (db m54785) HM
Before Saddlehorn was a neighborhood, it was a rural cattle farm. Corrals like this were used (and still are in some instances) by farmers as holding pens to work with cattle that grazed the surrounding pastures. When farmers built this corral, . . . — — Map (db m11250) HM
In Memoriam The students of Pelzer Public Schools who gave their lives in World War II Jack Bannister • J. Feaster Beacham • Clinton Dean • Grady Dunlap • John D. McBrearty • Jack Meares • Lamar Neely • John W. Phillips • Harold Ross • . . . — — Map (db m237673) WM
The first Pelzer Mills School, built in 1881, was a two-story frame building. The school was described as having "the air of a city school" and the mill funded a ten-month term at a time when three-months was common. The school was free and open to . . . — — Map (db m234255) HM
This is the site of a small cemetery used by the Reece family in the 19th century. Because cattle roamed freely in this area for years, the tombstones and other grave markings are broken. In 1977, the readable tombstones were recorded by family . . . — — Map (db m11091) HM
(Front)
Previously housed in a log cabin 1/2 mi. E, White Plains School moved to this site by 1890. At least sixty pupils attended the one-room frame school, which served white families from the White Plains community. The first teacher at . . . — — Map (db m238534) HM
This area was a hub of African-American life from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries. Anderson County Training School, built ca. 1922 as a Rosenwald school, closed in 1954 under the equalization program for black and white schools. It burned in . . . — — Map (db m54824) HM
The one-room frame public school organized shortly after the Civil War, housed 76 students and 1 teacher by 1870. The school term lasted 1 month and 10 days. Jane Harris Hunter, founder of the Phillis Wheatley centers for working girls, attended . . . — — Map (db m9647) HM
This plantation on the old road to Pickensville has been the home of several prominent S.C. families. Many of its owners were members of the Pendleton Farmers Society, and during the nineteenth century, studies, experiments, and advances in . . . — — Map (db m9649) HM
Born Charleston, S.C., 1824.
Graduated West Point 1845.
Brigadier General, C.S.A., 1861.
Commanded 3rd Brigade,
Army of the Shenandoah.
July 21, 1861, at Manassas, Va., where he gave Gen. T.J. Jackson the name "Stonewall." Mortally . . . — — Map (db m39001) HM
[Front]:
Confederate Brig. Gen. Clement H. Stevens (1821-1864) is buried nearby in the Bee family plot. Born in Connecticut, Stevens moved to S.C. after his father's death in 1836. In 1861 he invented the first ironclad battery, which . . . — — Map (db m9680) HM
In recognition of Dr. Don C. Garrison for his thirty-two years of devoted service as the second president of the College for his dynamic leadership within the College, the State technical college system, and community colleges nationwide; for his . . . — — Map (db m18857) HM
Founded in 1790,
Pendleton was established as the judicial seat
for the Pendleton District, today known as
Anderson, Oconee and Pickens Counties.
This Health and Heritage Walking Trail offers
a glimpse into the past and the opportunity . . . — — Map (db m29865) HM
Located in the center of Historic Pendleton (1790), the building now housing the Pendleton District Commission was constructed in 1850 as a general store for Jesse Lewis. The business first came into the Hunter family in 1870 when it became . . . — — Map (db m13903) HM
Directly behind this marker is the homesite of Joe and Mary Broyles Douthit. Born in Anderson County January 30, 1893, graduate of Clemson University, 1914. Farmer and seed breeder, lifelong member and steward of Sandy Springs United Methodist . . . — — Map (db m52075) HM
On April 8, 1790, the Justices of the Peace for Pendleton County purchased this land to establish the courthouse town of Pendleton. Once Cherokee Indian land, the town became the judicial, social and commercial center for what now are Anderson, . . . — — Map (db m9614) HM
This London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina. Later in Pendleton he founded Miller's Weekly . . . — — Map (db m144322) HM
Born in 1840, Colonel Simpson, lawyer, farmer, and legislator, drafted and executed Thomas Green Clemson's will, establishing Clemson Agricultural College in 1889. Simpson was first president of the college's board of trustees and once owned land . . . — — Map (db m9682) HM
This property was this site of a private residence as early as 1830's. In 1860, John Baylis Earle Sloan and his wife, Mollie Seaborne Sloan, established a home that became known as Tanglewood.
The columns and the ruins seen today are all . . . — — Map (db m16616) HM
These extra wide porches, used for entertaining and enjoyment of he cool breezes, are called piazzas.
Seen on every piazza is a joggling board. In this country, the joggling board got its start in Charleston in 1803. By lightly bouncing, . . . — — Map (db m36306) HM
The paved brick walk leads to the gravesite of Thomas Green Clemson, founder of Clemson University. He was a Scientist, Agriculturist, Statesman, and Educator. His gift to South Carolina of an Institution for the promotion of education in the fields . . . — — Map (db m13938) HM
A native Philadelphian and leading agriculturist, Mr. Clemson was U.S. charge d'affaires to Belgium, U.S. Superintendent of Agriculture, and the 1868 president of Pendleton Farmers Society. He married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, Anna, . . . — — Map (db m9681) HM
Dedicated in 1979
in Honor of
Thomas Green Clemson
1807-1888
A Native Philadelphian and
Leading Agriculturist. Mr.
Clemson was U.S. Charge
D'Affaires to Belgium, U.S.
Superintendent of
Agriculture, and the
1868 President . . . — — Map (db m16617) HM
Memories of the Plantation Era -- Owners and Tenants
Owners
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1822, made Woodburn Historic House his summer home around 1830. A graduate of Harvard . . . — — Map (db m15361) HM
Some 200 yards west of here stands Woodburn, built by S.C. Lieutenant Governor Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by 1832. Dr. John B. Adger, Presbyterian minister to Armenia, bought Woodburn in 1852; in 1881 Augustine T. Smythe began a model stock farm . . . — — Map (db m9588) HM
Sandy Springs Camp Ground: This Methodist camp ground named for the large spring nearby, dates to 1828, when a fifteen-acre site was purchased from Sampson Pope for $45. Early meetings were under a brush arbor until a central wooden shelter . . . — — Map (db m10785) HM
Dean
Dean is named for the Dean family, whose cemetery is located about a mile west. Samuel Dean came to South Carolina from Maryland in 1786 and settled here in the Mountain Creek area along with the Cummins and James families. Dean and his . . . — — Map (db m11712) HM
Project Data
The Hartwell Project, second in a series of multi-purpose projects planned for the Savannah River Basin, was constructed between October 1955 and December 1963 at a cost of about $90,000,000. The concrete dam rises 204 feet . . . — — Map (db m57899) HM
Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church. This is the first known site of Townville Presbyterian Church, founded in this area in 1803 as Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church. The church held its services at members' homes until . . . — — Map (db m10784) HM
One thousand feet due north on a site now covered by Hartwell Reservoir, the Portman Shoals Power Plant, built by William C. Whitner, began the transmission of high-voltage electricity in 1897 over the longest lines then used for that purpose in . . . — — Map (db m10783) HM
Named in Honor of
J.H. (Doc) Saylors
For his dedicated public
service to South Carolina
10th Dist. Highway Commissioner
1958-1962
Chairman S.C. Highway Commission
1960-1961 — — Map (db m10845) HM
[Front]
This church, founded as Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church, was established in 1803. It met in members’ homes until they paid $1.50 for a half-acre tract and built a small frame church 2.5 mi. E. The founders’ cemetery . . . — — Map (db m39349) HM
One of the oldest congregations and the mother of several others in Anderson County, it was organized in 1788 by Elder Moses Holland who served as pastor for 41 years. Dr. James Bruton Gambrell's mother was a member here. Soldiers of five wars . . . — — Map (db m8441) HM
On May 1, 1865, cadets from the Arsenal Academy at Columbia, under Capt. John Peyre Thomas, who were en route from Greenville to Newberry to be disbanded, met a band of Stoneman's raiders near here in one of the last engagements of the war, which . . . — — Map (db m8395) HM
In Memory of
West Allen Williams
1804 - 1857
Founded Williamston
Donor of Spring
&
Park
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He said
This Water Shall by Forever
Free to All People — — Map (db m15795) HM
"Embraced by the gratitude of an entire community and held in the love and admiration of a descended family, here rests the earthen tabernacles of our beloved founder, West Allen Williams, and family. Reverently moved from a forgotten cemetery a . . . — — Map (db m19714) HM
A South Carolina "Spa"
In 1852, following the discovery of a "healing" spring and the announcement that the railroad was going to be running through the area, the Town of Williamston was chartered. In time, lots were sold for houses to be . . . — — Map (db m15719) HM
This college was founded Feb. 12, 1872, by the Reverend Samuel Lander, D.D., Methodist minister. On this site stood the college building until 1939. The school was removed to Greenwood, S.C., Sept. 27, 1904, becoming Lander College, in honor of . . . — — Map (db m8440) HM
This site and the one directly in front, Mineral Spring Park, which was donated by West Allen Williams in 1842, formed the nucleus for the new Town of Mineral Springs. In 1852, the town received its charter and the name was changed to Williamston . . . — — Map (db m19733) HM
Coal Creek valley was the scene of an armed rebellion against the state by free miners seeking an end to the common practice of leasing convicts to coal companies. On Oct. 31, 1891 the convict laborers at Briceville were freed by armed miners. The . . . — — Map (db m102292) HM
Built in 1888 by Welsh coal miners, the church and its cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Miners who fought the Tennessee National Guard over the use of convict labor during the Coal Creek War and the church was a . . . — — Map (db m102331) HM
The Cross Mountain Mine opened in 1888 approximately one mile up Slatestone Road to the west. By 1911, it had two power plants to generate electricity, providing incandescent light for the main entries. Coal was cut by electric chain machines and . . . — — Map (db m102329) HM
Powell Harmon wrote a farewell letter before suffocating in the Fraterville Mine in 1902 that said, "My boys, never work in the coal mines.: His eldest son, Briceville student Condy Harmon, knew that honoring such a request would subject his family . . . — — Map (db m102425) HM
Thirty-one of the 84 miners who perished in the December 9, 1911 explosion of the Cross Mountain Mine are buried in concentric circles around a monument beside Circle Cemetery Road. The arrangement of headstones may be rooted in the Welsh ancestry . . . — — Map (db m102427) HM
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