Download or read book Remembering Dillon County South Carolina written by Carley Wiggins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he began writing articles for the Dillon Herald in 2003, Carley Wiggins has been telling the stories of Dillon County folks who made a difference but never made the headlines, such as James K. Braboy, the first Native American named Teacher of the Year in South Carolina, or Robert McRae, the areas last taxi driver. Come along with Wiggins as he investigates the ruins of a long-forgotten resort on Reedy Creek and tromps off into the woods in search of the mysterious Bingham Light. Whether or not you remember Dillons short-lived semipro football team or ate at Hatchs Lunch, Remembering Dillon County is full of true stories from the Pee Dee region that will inspire and entertain you.
Download or read book Hidden History of Dillon County written by Carley Wiggins and published by Hidden History. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a follow-up to his first book Remembering Dillon County, Carley Wiggins digs into a lesser-known territory with a fantastic new volume of his popular articles. He vividly recounts the history of the county, with a collection of rarely heard stories, including tales of the Maple Swamp Gang that terrorized the county during the years of the Civil War and Wiggins own years spent harvesting tobacco on the family farm. Along with the stories come the people, from Ches McCartney, known to the townsfolk as the "Goat Man," to the athletes of the Border Belt baseball team, proving Dillon County's history is overflowing with fascinating characters whose stories have never been told until now.
Download or read book The History of Dillon County South Carolina written by Durward T. Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dillon County South Carolina written by Dillon County Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of South Carolina written by South Carolina Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering Reconstruction written by Carole Emberton and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void, assembling a prestigious lineup of Reconstruction historians to examine the competing social and historical memories of this pivotal and violent period in American history. Many consider the period from 1863 (beginning with slave emancipation) to 1877 (when the last federal troops were withdrawn from South Carolina and Louisiana) an “unfinished revolution” for civil rights, racial-identity formation, and social reform. Despite the cataclysmic aftermath of the war, the memory of Reconstruction in American consciousness and its impact on the country’s fraught history of identity, race, and reparation has been largely neglected. The essays in Remembering Reconstruction advance and broaden our perceptions of the complex revisions in the nation's collective memory. Notably, the authors uncover the impetus behind the creation of black counter-memories of Reconstruction and the narrative of the “tragic era” that dominated white memory of the period. Furthermore, by questioning how Americans have remembered Reconstruction and how those memories have shaped the nation's social and political history throughout the twentieth century, this volume places memory at the heart of historical inquiry.
Download or read book Community Profile Dillon County South Carolina written by South Carolina. Office of Economic Opportunity. Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering South Carolina s Old Pendleton District written by Hurley E. Badders and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?It would be difficult to find an individual more qualified to document the history of the Old Pendleton District than Hurley E. Badders.? Rodger D. Stroup, Director of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History Nestled in the Northeastern foothills of South Carolina, the Old Pendleton District holds many stories that span the entire scope of the Palmetto State's history. Made up of three present-day counties, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee, this area has been the setting to historical events that have not only shaped the area's past, but the entire state of South Carolina. Drawing on his impressive tenure as Executive Director of the Pendleton District Historical, Recreational and Tourism Commission, author Hurley E. Badders recounts a wide variety of backcountry history that brings to light a number of fascinating episodes in the Old Pendleton District's past. Badders tells the story of the Cherokee and their undeniable influence on the area through their folklore as well as the names they bestowed on rivers and hills. With his warm, casual style, Hurley reveals these stories and many more, taking readers on a journey through the generations in one of South Carolina's most vibrant areas.
Download or read book Ghosts of the Pee Dee written by Tally Johnson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ghostly Figure hanging in a churchyardicy fingers that run up your neckthe Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp. From the swamps of Kershaw County to an abandoned graveyard underneath South of the Border, the South Carolina Pee Dee is home to a rich heritage and a sometimes frightening past. In this volume, storyteller and author Tally Johnson investigates the truth behind the ghostly legends of counties that have seen revolution and war, tragedy and triumph. With an attention to history and a passion for the truth behind the legends, this fascinating glimpse into the Pee Dees past reveals that it is far stranger than anyone ever imagined.
Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of South Carolina No 17 Dillon County written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Architectural Survey of Dillon County South Carolina written by Edward Salo and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Cold Warrior written by J. Edward Lee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a quarter of a century, South Carolinian James P. Richards was a skillful bi-partisan legislator, standing on the front lines with Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and his congressional colleagues to shape American Foreign Policy in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East during the Cold War. In 1957, Richards served as Eisenhower’s ambassador to the strategic Middle East, travelling 30,000 miles and visiting fifteen nations explaining the evils of “international communism.” Richards’ bi-partisanship and his experiences in the Middle East are of interest to America in the post-9/11 world.
Download or read book Covingtons Remembered written by Da Costa Euclid Covington and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of records of many people surnamed Covington in England and America.
Download or read book Community Economic Profile Dillon County South Carolina written by South Carolina. Office of Economic Opportunity. Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1965* with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgia Remembered written by Ann H. Stephens and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the last decade of the nineteenth century in rural Bladen County, North Carolina, Georgia was the typical child whose two great loves were being outdoors and spending time with her father. However, the presentation of her story is unique in that the first part is autobiographical in nature. She started writing what she called “a few things that happened in my life” on January 1, 1952, when she was 57 years old. Her childhood and early adulthood experiences reflect the customs of the times as she describes how her family survived floods, fire, illness and extreme weather conditions. On her first day of school, she really did walk two miles to the one-room schoolhouse. Since her father disapproved of her choice for a husband, at 17 she eloped to marry Judd Ezzell. She and the groom drove away in a horse and buggy to start a new life in neighboring Sampson County. Georgia always maintained that Judd was the love of her life, and 10 children later, they were still together.. The account of her later years is provided by four of her granddaughters. This phase of her life begins during the Great Depression, when events occurred that made recovery from the devastation of the depression very difficult. Th e family’s responses to life’s challenges make an interesting narrative that ranges from inspirational to religious to comical.
Download or read book Remembering a Kaleidoscope of Yesteryears written by Doris Honour Gerard and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the first one of the “Remembering” trilogy, the Author paints a vivid picture of living and growing up in South Carolina during one of America's most tumultuous, historic periods. The setting bridges the years from the pre-Depression days to the United States' entry into World War II. The Author remembers with amazing clarity and in fascinating detail the challenges, struggles and adventures of the times, and she intertwines history, humor and romance as she tells her story. “Remembering a Kaleidoscope of Yesteryears” is more that just an autobiography; it offers portraits of the book's characters that brings them to life as they confront the challenges of a land still recovering from the aftermath of the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the inexorable slide into another war.
Download or read book Washing Our Hands in the Clouds written by Bo Petersen and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Washing Our Hands in the Clouds, Bo Petersen masterfully crafts a reflection on the Civil War, emancipation, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement in the personal story of how it affected one man's life in a specific South Carolina locale. Petersen's accomplishment is that, in studying the Pee Dee region of Dillon and Marion Counties, he illuminates those issues throughout the Deep South. Through conversations with Joe Williams, his family, and acquaintances, white and black, Petersen merges the Williams family history back to Joe's great-great-grandfather, Scipio Williams, with the lives and fortunes of four generations of South Carolinians—black and white. Scipio, the family progenitor, was a man free in spirit and action before the Civil War destroyed chattel slavery. Scipio was a free black farmer who worked land that he owned in the Pee Dee before and after the war and during the worst days of Jim Crow white supremacy. Petersen uses the Williams family genealogy, neighborhood, and, most important, their farmlands to understand Pee Dee and South Carolina history from the 1860s to the present. In his research he discovers historical currents that run deeper than events—currents of agriculture, land ownership, and allegiance to native soil—and transcend the march of time and carry the Williams family through slavery, war, Jim Crow, and economic dislocation to today's stories of Joe Williams. In gathering what Petersen describes as a collection of front porch stories, he also writes a history of what matters most to this family and this locale. The resulting narrative is surprising, unconventional, and true for all families in all places. In Dillon County, tobacco production followed cotton farming. Old-time logging coexisted with textile factories. Jim Crow gave way to uncertain prospects of racial harmony. Those were monumental changes of circumstance, but they did not change human character. Washing Our Hands in the Clouds is a history of human character, of life that endures outside of the restraints of time. To understand this phenomenon is to realize that both Scipio and Joe and the generations between them wash their hands in the timeless clouds of South Carolina's sky.
