Book/Printed Material A history of Spartanburg county
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Image 1 of A history of Spartanburg county- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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- Date: 1940
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Image 4 of A history of Spartanburg county- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
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Image 9 of A history of Spartanburg county A History of Spartanburg County- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
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Image 10 of A history of Spartanburg county- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
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Image 11 of A history of Spartanburg county A History of Spartanburg County COMPILED BY THE Spartanburg Unit of the Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of South Carolina American Guide Series (Illustrated) SPONSORED BY THE...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 12 of A history of Spartanburg county SOUTH CAROLINA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, State-wide Sponsor of the South Carolina Writers’ Project FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY John M. Carmody, Administrator WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION F. C. Harrington, Commissioner Florence Kerr, Assistant Commissioner...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 13 of A history of Spartanburg county FOREWORD This attempt to chronicle A History of Spartanburg County has been a labor of pleasure and enthusiasm. The book is not patterned on the conventional county history; it deals with individuals,...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 14 of A history of Spartanburg county of University Women, who have demonstrated their faith in this work and in the civic spirit of their fellow-citizens by assuming the respon¬ sibility of publishing it, have won a claim to...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 15 of A history of Spartanburg county CONTENTS Chapter Page Foreword___ 5 I. Blockhouses and Settlements_ 11 II. Spartans in the Revolutionary Struggle. 21 III. The Making of Spartan County_ 33 IV. Spartan District, 1800-1825. 43 V. The Courthouse...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
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Image 16 of A history of Spartanburg county- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
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Image 17 of A history of Spartanburg county ILLUSTRATIONS A Map of Spartanburgh District in 1825—Reproduced from Mills’s Atlas with insets: A Plat of Spartanburgh Village in 1802—Col¬ onial and Revolutionary Sites Front End A Map of Spartanburg County in...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 18 of A history of Spartanburg county- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
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Image 19 of A history of Spartanburg county CHAPTER ONE Blockhouses and Settlements The Name of Spartanburg alone among the forty-six counties the County 0 f Carolina bears a name based on the character of its settlers. No account exists...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 20 of A history of Spartanburg county 12 A History of Spartanburg County of all the wild creatures. It seems only logical that the three branches of the Tyger River should perpetuate its name. Herds of buffalo were seen...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 21 of A history of Spartanburg county Blockhouses and Settlements 13 come with wagons and teams, there must have been practicable routes from the Alleghanies to the Southern slopes of the Saluda Moun¬ tains. It was not only more...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 22 of A history of Spartanburg county 14 A History of Spartanburg County Explorers, The earliest explorers and traders found no Indian Traders, Cowmen villages in the entire area between the Broad and Saluda rivers, because it was in...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 23 of A history of Spartanburg county Blockhouses and Settlements 15 which to keep his stores secure. About it were built the cabins and sheds required for the use of his family and helpers and live stock. Such blockhouses...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 24 of A history of Spartanburg county 16 A History of Spartanburg County house, which they named Nazareth. Nazareth Church, formally or¬ ganized in 1772, was the first permanent organization in the county. About it cluster enough associations to...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 25 of A history of Spartanburg county Blockhouses and Settlements 17 Gowan’s Fort, Prince’s Fort, Jamison’s Fort, Wood’s Fort, Nicholls’ Fort, Blackstock’s Fort. There is reason to believe that the strongest of these blockhouses was Fort Prince. Records of...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 26 of A history of Spartanburg county 20 A History of Spartanburg County to a document by which they solemnly bound themselves “to associate in the defense of South Carolina against every foe and to hold all those persons...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 27 of A history of Spartanburg county CHAPTER TWO Spartans in the Revolutionary Struggle Formation of the The commissioners sent into the Upper District by Spartan Regiment t h e Council of Safety were William Henry Dray¬ ton and...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
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Image 28 of A history of Spartanburg county 22 A History of Spartanburg County The Regiment The first service rendered by the Spartan Regiment m Action was j ts participation under Colonel Richard Richard¬ son in his campaign against the...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 29 of A history of Spartanburg county Spartans in the Revolutionary Struggle 23 July until about the middle of October he swept through the Cherokee towns, in cooperation with militia from North Carolina and Virginia. Some of the Spartans...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 30 of A history of Spartanburg county 24 A History of Spartanburg County of his fellow-officers, including Sumter and Pickens, did. The officer at Ninety-Six, in charge of receiving submissions from Americans, was the very Richard Pearis whose property...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 31 of A history of Spartanburg county Spartans in the Revolutionary Struggle 25 or Spartan District. The Spartans still held, hidden safely, some of the powder furnished Colonel Thomas, Sr., by Drayton and Rutledge in 1776. Brandon’s first step,...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 32 of A history of Spartanburg county 26 A History of Spartanburg County been bought and sold; fields had been cleared and planted; houses and mills had been erected. Wagon trade with Charles Town had been brisk. Soldiers had...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 33 of A history of Spartanburg county Spartans in the Revolutionary Struggle 27 by Patrick Moore and made a Tory stronghold from which bands sallied forth to plunder the surrounding country. It was captured by the Whigs, July 30,...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 34 of A history of Spartanburg county 28 A History of Spartanburg County news of Gate’s disastrous defeat and of the approach of fresh British troops. The Ride to At once they distributed the prisoners and started Hillsboro toward...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 35 of A history of Spartanburg county Spartans in the Revolutionary Struggle 29 Fairforest basin. Both regiments were active at Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780. Fighting in the During all of this time, Ferguson’s men had been Fairforest Region...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 36 of A history of Spartanburg county 30 A History of Spartanburg County must eat. But bands of violent men disregarded this truce, their ac¬ tivities possibly stimulated by news of renewed efforts by the British to reestablish their...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 37 of A history of Spartanburg county Spartans in the: Revolutionary Struggle; 31 them, of Mrs. Thomas, of Fairforest, and her ride of fifty miles, from Ninety-Six, where her husband was prisoner, to Cedar Springs, to warn her neighbors...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 38 of A history of Spartanburg county 32 A History of Spartanburg County Revolution he was personally acquainted with every settler above the Congarees. Characterization of The circumstances under which they lived and the Spartan Regiment f OU ght...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 39 of A history of Spartanburg county Pages From the Notebooks of Samuel Noblit Below, One of His Compositions A SONG You Carolinans all Draw near Attention give you Shall hear The Truth to you I zxnll Relate it...- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940
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Image 40 of A history of Spartanburg county- Contributor: Writers' Program. South Carolina
- Date: 1940