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This project is part of the State of South Carolina Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from California. You can add profiles for: People born in South Carolina People who lived in South Carolina People who died in South Carolina When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marlboro County, South Carolina. Official Website Succeeding indigenous peoples occupied this area for thousands of years. At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area were the Pee Dee. Though nearly wiped out by European settlers, the Pee Dee Indian Tribe was able to survive centuries of war, disease, slavery and ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oconee County, South Carolina. Official Website Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, the county was established in 1868 and was named after an historic Cherokee town and the word "Ae-quo-nee", meaning "land beside the water." Adjacent Counties Jackson County, North Carolina Transylvania County, North Carolin...
Petty Family Cemetery,Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA:
Wikipedia =Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant and sea-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina.Founded in 1889, Clemson University consists of six colleges: Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and Humanities; Business and Behavioral Sciences; Engineering and Science; Health and Human Development; and Education. As of 2015, Cle...
Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina. It was dedicated in 1850; Charles Fraser delivered the dedication address. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1978.Notable intermentsalso* TripAdvisor photos
Wikipedia =The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) opened in Charleston, South Carolina in 1824 as a small private college for the training of physicians. It is one of the oldest continually operating schools of medicine in the United States and the oldest in the Deep South. The school's main building was designed by Charleston architect Albert W. Todd.The school has expanded into a sta...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union County, South Carolina. Official Website Early Settlement The area that includes Union County was once controlled by the Cherokee Indians and they used it as a hunting ground. Up until recent years, one could find numerous arrowheads with little effort throughout the county. The first European settlers in Union County came ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Official Website Berkeley County was established in 1682. It was named after John and William Berkeley, co-owners of the Province of Carolina. It became part of the Charleston District in 1769. It did not exist as a District during most of the 19th century and generally was part of the Low Country cu...
Please add profiles of persons born in and associated with Marion County. Note that Marion and Dillon county have overlapping territory depending upon year of birth with Dillon County being formed in 1910 from a northern piece of Marion County. Profiles from some individuals before that time can indicate Marion County as place of birth. Cemeteries Cemeteries of South Carolina Links & R...
The Badwell Cemetery, in McCormick County, South Carolina, had to be partially moved in the 1970's, by the Corps of Engineers, to make way for a lake, which is part of Sumter National Forest. In the 1990s the cemetery was severely vandalized, and had also naturally deteriorated. There had been a cast iron Grim Reaper, that was famous in the area, attached to the cemetery gate, in the mid 1800s,...
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Mount Carmel Cemetery Mount Carmel, McCormick County, South Carolina, USA
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in York County, South Carolina. Official Website History With a population of nearly 6,000 at the time of first European contact, the native inhabitants, the Catawba were primarily agriculturalists. Hernando de Soto passed through the area in the 1540s in his search for gold. Several decades later Juan Pardo recorded his observation of...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McCormick County, South Carolina. The county was formed in 1916 and was named for inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). Adjacent Counties Greenwood County Edgefield County Columbia County, Georgia Lincoln County, Georgia Elbert County, Georgia Abbeville County Towns & Communities Clarks Hill McCormick (Coun...
Traders in Some Southeast Indian Nations 1750 ~ 1754 from First People of Tennessee Traders to the Catawbas Robert Steel Robert Tool Mathew Toole Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina James Adair The Augusta Company James Baldridg Charles Banks William Bates James and Thomas Beamer Samuel Benn Robert Bunning John Butler Cornelius Daugherty Anthony ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Official Website The county was created in 1769 and named for William III of England. At the time of European encounter, Siouan-speaking tribes, such as the Pee Dee, Cheraw and Catawba, inhabited the Piedmont area above the fall line. The Beaver Creek Indians, the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Beaver ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Horry County, South Carolina. Official Website Horry County (pronounced O'Ree) was created from Georgetown District in 1801. At this time, the county had an estimated population of 550. Isolated by the many rivers and swamps typical of the South Carolina Lowcountry, the area essentially was surrounded by water, forcing its inhabitan...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kershaw County, South Carolina. Official Website Kershaw County was named for Col. Joseph Kershaw (1727–1791), an early settler considered as "the father of Camden". Originally part of Camden District, Kershaw County was formed in 1791. During the American Revolutionary War, the British occupied Camden from June 1780 to May 1781. F...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Florence County, South Carolina. Official Website Formed in 1888, Florence County was named for the daughter of General W. W. Harlee. Adjacent Counties Dillon County Marion County Darlington County Marlboro County Lee County Clarendon County Sumter County
Wikipedia =Francis Marion University (formerly Francis Marion College) is a state-supported liberal arts university located six miles (11 km) east of Florence, South Carolina, USA. It is named in honor of American Revolutionary War hero Brigadier General Francis Marion. Notable Alumni
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Charleston City or County, South Carolina. Official Website History of Charleston Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II of England. Its initial location at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) was abandoned in 1680 for its present site, which became th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Official Website The county was founded in 1769. It is named for George III of England. Adjacent Counties Berkeley County Williamsburg County Charleston County Horry County Marion County Cities, Towns & Communities Andrews (part) Belle Isle DeBordieu Garden City (part)
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Aiken County, South Carolina. Official Website Both Aiken County and its county seat of Aiken are named after William Aiken (1779–1831), the first president of the South Carolina Railroad Company. Aiken County was organized during the Reconstruction era in 1871. Prince Rivers, a freedman and state legislator from Edgefield County ,...
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