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Cotton overwhelms the facilities of this wharf in Charleston in this 1909 photograph. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
South Carolina - Late 19th Century
1865-1900. The late 19th century included recovery and many changes as a result of the American Civil War. African Americans experienced a number of ups and downs after the emancipation. The women's suffrage movement began to take shape. Agriculture systems changed drastically and many laborers began working in fast-growing industries like textile mills.
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"A Visit to the Phosphate Fields and Hills," showing the structure of the phosphate washing machinery that cleaned the rock before it was crushed to make the fertilizer. "Leslie's Illustrated Magazine...
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The Wapoo Factory, on the Ashley River, employed 430 men and processed 60,000 tons of fertilizer a year in the 1880s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The Portman Shoals Power Plant in Anderson County provided electric power for the Upcountry areas of South Carolina. Photographed for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Courtesy of the...
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The South Carolina Electric and Gas Company steam generator plant at Lake Murray, August 25, 1958. The South Carolina Electric and Gas Company had its origins in the creation of the Columbia Gas Light...
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A color postcard from the 1950s shows the completed hydro and steam electric generating plants of the Santee-Cooper facility at Moncks Corner. The photograph shows the Pinopolis dam, as well as the...
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The Santee Cooper electric power project begun during the New Deal was promoted by Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood (see Ibra Charles Blackwood). The power-house site for the dam is shown here under...
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Falling water remained an important source of power for the growing textile industry in South Carolina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here the Saluda River Dam in Greenville harnesses the...
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Water power was an important resource for early industry in South Carolina. This mill south of Columbia created a mill pond where the state fair grounds are now located. The presence of the mill and...
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Charcoal burners, near the Francis Marion National Forest. The photograph of the charcoal operation of Mr. J.W. Litchfield near the Rotten Egg Savannah Road, "shows practically the complete operation...