The Highland Park Hotel | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Highland Park Hotel was an important part of the "Winter Colony" of Aiken, photographed here in February of 1894. Built in 1866, the hotel provided luxury accommodations for wealthy visitors from the north who came to hunt, play tennis, golf, and enjoy the warm winter climate.

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

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1.H.3 Evaluate different sources of evidence used in historical inquiry, such as art, artifacts, digital sources, graphs, maps, oral histories, photographs/images, and texts.

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