May 2020 – Page 3 – Explore South Carolina

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The Brown Franklin Building

The Providence Presbyterian Church was organized and built in 1842 as the results of the merger of the Providence and New Harmony Presbyterian church that were both in the Lowndesville area. The church was remodeled in 1886 adding the campanile and removing the slave gallery

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This molded concrete building was built in 1920. It later became the home of the First National Bank of Orangeburg. FNB of Orangeburg was established in 1933 and later became known as South Carolina Bank and Trust and then South State Bank

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Pinner’s Pharmacy

Turtles sunning themselves at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site

This two-story frame house in Union was built ca. 1900. The home features a central three-story tower with twin gabled pavilions flanking its central tower

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First National Bank of Sharon

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The Hope Rosenwald School was built in ca. 1926. The school was named for James Haskell Hope, the South Carolina Superintendent of Education from 1922 to 1945, because he sold more than 2 acres of his land for the “gift-like’ price of $5 to the Trustees of School District No. 60 for Newberry County, South Carolina in 1925

The Mt. Joy Baptist Church in Kelton (Jonesville) was organized in 1876. This building was erected in 1924. This church was mainly organized through the ministerial labors of Elder T. J. Taylor and constituted November 30th, 1876

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This building in Anderson was built ca. 1890. This building has served as the home to many businesses during its 130 years