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The Old Records Building, designed by architect Robert Mills, served as the Greenville County Courthouse until 1855. It is photographed here in 1918 behind the Barnum and Bailey's Circus Parade...G. South Carolina Towns & Cities | History of SC Slide Collection
Almost all of the images in this collection document a particular South Carolina place at a specific time in its history. This section, organized alphabetically is not intended, therefore, as a comprehensive list of every South Carolina community. It is actually a fairly impressionistic look at the county seats and rural villages, as well as the cities, in which South Carolinians live and work. For several towns and cities (Beaufort, Camden, Charleston, Columbia, Darlington, Georgetown, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Sumter), an effort has been made to select several images that show how that place has changed over time. Other places were chosen for special features that have made that town unique; still others have been chosen because they illustrate the features that many towns in the state have shared.
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The corner of Front and Broad Street in Georgetown, looking east, shows the People's Bank with its summer awnings up on the left, around 1900. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Photo
Florence City Hall, built in 1900, photographed in 1909. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Photo
This view of the Darlington town square gives a good view of the fourth courthouse, built in 1903. Darlington was an important cotton market, and farmers are gathered on the courthouse square around...Photo
Main Street in Conway, around 1906. The township plan implemented in 1731 to protect Charleston with a ring of settlements, called for a town along the west bank of the Waccamaw River, originally...Photo
This view of Columbia from across the Congaree River appeared in the New York "Illustrated News" on January 5, 1861. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Photo
Market Street, Cheraw, looking west, around 1900. The white columned building at the right is the Lyceum, a library and meeting place for the Cheraw Lyceum Society, built in 1820. Courtesy of the...Photo
"An Exact Prospect of Charles Town, the Metropolis of the Province of South Carolina," was engraved for the London Magazine in 1762, based on a painting of the bustling colonial commercial city in...Photo
Camden's Main Street, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Photo
Fire damage to Sherper's Wharf in Beaufort, 1907. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.