Union
Balloon Landing 1861
(Front) On April 20, 1861, only days after the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, scientist and aeronaut T.S.C. Lowe (1832-1913) landed the...
Battle of Blackstock’s
Cross Keys, SC
This battle of the Revolution took place on William Blackstock's plantation, 3 miles N. on the south side of the Tyger River, November...
Cross Keys House
Cross Keys, SC
(Front) A post office was established in 1809 at Cross Keys, S.C. In 1812-14, Barrum Bobo erected this house at the intersection of the...
Culp-Beaty Hall
Union, SC
(Front) This Greek Revival house was built ca.
Episcopal Church of the Nativity
Union, SC
(Front) This parish was established in 1855 with the Rev. John DeWitt McCollough (1822-1902) as its first rector.
Fair Forest Plantation/Emslie Nicholson House
Union, SC
FAIR FOREST PLANTATION (Front) Fair Forest, named for nearby Fairforest Creek, was the plantation of Col. Thomas Fletchall (d. 1789),...
Fairforest Church
Led by Philip Mulkey, 13 converts of the Great Awakening movement traveled from N.C. to S.C. in 1759, settled on the Broad River, and...
Fairforest Meeting
1.5 miles SW stood the original Fairforest Baptist Church.
Otterson’s Fort
one mile east of this point, built by the pioneers of Union County, was one of several stockades used as refuges during the Cherokee War,...
Padgett’s Creek Baptist Church
Union, SC
(Front) This church was founded in 1784 by Revs.
Poplar Grove School
Union, SC
(Front) Poplar Grove School opened in 1927 as a four-classroom school for African American students in Union Co. An extra classroom was...
Presbyterian Cemetery
Union, SC
(Front) This cemetery, the oldest in Union, was established ca.
Rose Hill Mansion
Erected in 1828-32 by William Henry Gist (1807-1874), lawyer, planter, legislator, and Secessionist Governor of South Carolina, Rose Hill...
Sims High School
Union, SC
Sims High School stood here from 1927 until the early 1970s and was the first black high school in Union County.
Sims High School
Union, SC
(Front) Sims High School, located here from 1956 to 1970, replaced a 1927 school on Union Boulevard, which in 1929 had become the first...
Site of Union Church 1783-1819
Monarch, SC
(Front) A “union” church, one founded as a Presbyterian congregation but also used by other denominations, stood here from ca.
Thomas N. Dawkins House
Union, SC
(Front) This was the home of Thomas N. Dawkins (1807-1870) and his second wife Mary Poulton Dawkins (1820-1906).
Union Community Hospital/Dr. L.w. Long
Union, SC
UNION COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (Front) Union Community Hospital served the black community of Union County and nearby areas from 1932 to 1975.
Union County Jail
Union, SC
(Front) The S.C. Board of Public Works had at least fourteen public buildings under contract in 1822-23, when Robert Mills, Acting...