Florence

Florence, SC

AMERICAN LEGION POST #1 (Front) This post, organized in May 1919 and chartered by national headquarters in June 1919, was the first...

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near here.

Florence, SC

(Front) Jews have lived in Florence since the city’s founding in the 1850s and were among its early civic leaders.

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) First organized as a chapel in 1843 by the Rev. N.P. Tillinghast of Trinity Church, Society Hill, this church was formally...

Lake City, SC

CHURCH STREET (Front) Before the 1820s this intersection of two major roads, one from Georgetown to Camden and the other from Charleston...

Just Se Of Pamplico, SC

(Front) Located about ½ mile east, this bluff, part of a Royal landgrant to Edward Crofts in 1740, was named for the DeWitt family, who...

Ebenzer, SC

(Front) In January of 1778 Ebenezer Baptist Church was constituted by pioneer minister Evan Pugh and Richard Furman, for whom Furman...

Florence, SC

FLORENCE DEPOT 1852 (Front) The original depot named Florence was built here in 1852, where the Wilmington & Manchester RR crossed...

Florence, SC

FRANK MANDEVILLE ROGERS, JR. (Front) Frank Mandeville Rogers Jr. (1857-1945) of Florence Co. was influential in the development of Bright...

Lake City, SC

(Front) This church was founded in 1883 by a Rev. Hill and twenty-five charter members.

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) This house, built as a one-room tenant house ca.

Lake City, SC

(Front) This two-story commercial building was built in 1910 by Henry Horace Singletary (1848-1912) as the H.H. Singletary Company, with...

Hannah, SC

(Front) Hannah, named for the Hannah/Hanna family, was known as Cane Branch or Lynches River before a post office was opened here in 1887.

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) The African Americans who built the two hewn-timber cabins that stand 200 yds. S on Wallace Woods Road were brought to Mars Bluff...

Florence, SC

(Front) This church, organized ca.

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) This African American community, which flourished here for 70 years, has its origins in a 105-acre tract bought in 1870 by former...

Lake City, SC

This site was part of the 150-acre plantation of Joshua Braveboy (1740-fl.

Lake City, SC

(Front) This area, in what was then Williamsburg Township, was settled as early as 1754 by members of the Dick, Graham, McAllister,...

Lake City, SC

LAKE CITY TOBACCO MARKETS (Front) Farmers in this vicinity began growing tobacco in the early 1890s, and by 1895 Lake City opened its...

Florence, SC

LAWTON-CHASE HOUSE (Front) This Art Moderne house, completed in 1939 for Joseph Maner Lawton, has housed the Florence Museum since 1953.

MARION AT PORT’S FERRY (Front) Port's Ferry, 3 miles NE on the Pee Dee, was owned and operated by Frances Port (c. 17251812), widow of...

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) This is the center of Mars Bluff, a rural community 8 mi. across in both directions, bounded by the Great Pee Dee River, Black...

Florence, SC

Born in Darlington District in 1845, this Confederate War veteran witnessed the firing attack on the Union steamer "Star of the West" as...

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) This church, founded in 1868 with Rev. James Wesley Johnson as its first minister, held its early services in a brush arbor.

Mars Bluff, SC

(Front) This school, built in 1925, was the first public school for African American students in the Mars Bluff community.

Lake City, SC

(Front) Constructed in 1907, this building originally housed Farmers and Merchants Bank.

Florence, SC

(Front) This church, founded in 1806 in what was Darlington District until Florence County was founded in 1888, grew out of an early...

APPROXIMATELY 3 MI. E OF FLORENCE, SC

(Front) This house was built in 1846 for Evander A. Gregg (1818-1874), a planter in what was Marion District.

Florence, SC

(Front) Roseville Plantation was established by a royal grant before the American Revolution and a house was built here ca.

Florence, SC

ROSEVILLE PLANTATION SLAVE AND FREEDMAN’S CEMETERY (Front) This was originally the slave cemetery for Roseville Plantation.

Florence, SC

(Front) Trinity Baptist organized in 1868, with Rev. Wesley J. Parnell (d.1873) serving as its first pastor.

Lake City, SC

This Folk Victorian house, with pierced brackets and fretwork on its two-tiered porch, was built ca.

Lake City, SC

(Front) Dr. James Whitehead (1906-2004) was a graduate of Lake City H.S. and the Medical University of S.C. After completing his...

Ebenezer, SC

A veteran of the Revolution, William Gee served as a private with the Continental Line of N.C. and moved to this area before 1797.

Florence, SC

(Front) William Henry Johnson (1901-1970), one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century, was born nearby on Cox...

Mars Bluff, SC

WILLIAM R. JOHNSON HOUSE (Front) This Greek Revival house was built ca.

Florence, SC

President of Wilmington & Manchester Railroad and a founder of the city of Florence, Harllee (1812-1897) was also a general in the SC...

Florence, SC

(Front) The congregation of Willow Creek Baptist Church can trace its origins to the early 19th century when it was first associated with...

Florence, SC

WILSON SCHOOL (Front) Wilson School, later Wilson High School, was the first public school in Florence, and stood here from 1866 to 1906.

Just N Of Johnsonville, SC

WITHERSPOON’S FERRY (Front) In use during the American Revolution, Witherspoon's Ferry was the site where Francis Marion accepted command...

Ebenezer, SC

In 1925 U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, later U.S. president, inspected Fred Young's dairy farm following recognition of one...