Important Institutions in South Carolina

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Lander College | History of SC Slide Collection
Lander College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 37

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Lander College, in Greenwood, was founded in Anderson County by Dr. Samuel Lander for the Upper South Carolina Methodist Conference in 1873 as the Williamston Female College. When it moved to...
Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection
Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 38

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Limestone College women stroll in front of the college's main building in Gaffney; the skirt styles, blue jeans, and car date this photograph as sometime in the early 1950s. Their attire is a far cry...
Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection
Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 39

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Newberry College, pictured in this engraving as it appeared around 1860, was one of a number of denominational colleges founded in the state just before the Civil War. Chartered in 1856 as a Lutheran...