Grade(s): 1
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
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Colleton County was named in honor of Sir John Colleton, one of the eight English lords proprietors, who was granted land by King Charles II. The county’s marshes made the area ideal for rice farming...
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Miss Sedgewick and her house servants pose outside her home in the Winter Colony of Aiken in 1896. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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A polo match in Aiken. Both Aiken and Camden have been noted for polo matches, and for sportsmen who raise and train the polo ponies essential to this mounted team sport. 1930s, WPA. Courtesy of the...
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A tennis game in progress at the Highland Park Hotel in 1890. A note on the back of this photograph, written long afterward when sports clothing for women had changed dramatically, asked a young...
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A new section of the Vaucluse Mill Village of the Graniteville Manufacturing Company. Photo by J.F. Sofge, Graniteville, December 19, 1947. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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North Augusta has a dual personality; although it has developed since the Second World War as a suburb of Augusta, across the Savannah River in Georgia, its citizens are very conscious of their South...
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An aerial photo of the site of the new Gregg Finishing Plant shows the original Graniteville Mills in the right foreground (see William Gregg and The Graniteville Mill). Newtown, a newer section of...
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Aiken County Courthouse, photographed by J.A. Palmer, around 1890. The town of Aiken was laid out in 1834, at the western end of the Charleston-Hamburg Railway line, built to carry cotton from the...
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A hunting party in at Aiken, around 1910. The dry, pleasant climate attracted winter visitors to Aiken as early as the 1850s, but its real expansion as a winter resort took place after the Civil War...
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"Close-up view of house loaded on two trailers ready to be moved. Boy Scout Cabin Site is immediately at right-hand side of picture." This photograph was taken on January 29, 1949, as construction...