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Winnsboro is known as the place where South Carolina’s lowcountry and upcountry meet, which is architecturally illustrated with the numerous raised cottages found in Winnsboro’s neighborhoods, called...
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McCormick is known to have the second richest vein of gold in South Carolina. Joanna Angle discusses the early history of McCormick; origins going as far back as Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto’s...
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The Wade-Beckham House is the last surviving mid-19th century plantation home left in Lancaster County. Joanna Angle discusses the history, and some architectural features of this home, and today, it...
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Cassina Point, one of Edisto’s oldest and most historic of homes, presently serves as a bed and breakfast inn. Traces of occupation by Union soldiers during the Civil War can still be seen today...
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Built in 1903 by James H. Roberts, the house was derelict for decades, but in 1987, it was purchased, refurbished, and has been returned back to its earlier grandeur. Today, it is a popular tourist...
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A Pawley's Island hotel in 1893. Pawley's is one of the oldest beach resorts in the state, and has managed (in spite of having a railroad causeway early in the 20th century, and an automobile causeway...
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The improvement of state highways in the 1920s brought increased tourist business to the South Carolina coastal resorts. The Ocean Forest Hotel at Myrtle Beach was built by a Greenville businessman in...
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The hotel terrace at the Isle of Palms, 1911. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.
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The Columbia Hotel, long a landmark for visitors to the city, was torn down in 1972. It appears here in a postcard photograph around 1900. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.
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Hotels were a necessary and important business in the principal towns and county seats of South Carolina. Here the Chiquola Hotel and the Confederate monument in front of it were photographed for a...