Month: June 2020
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Author: chris Published Date: June 7, 2020 Leave a Comment on Liberty Hill AME Church near Summerton was founded in 1867. This building was built in 1905 in wood and brick veneer was added in the 1940s. Nineteen members of this congregation were plaintiffs in the case of Briggs v. Elliott, heard in U.S. District Court in Charleston in 1952. Although the three-judge panel refused to abolish racial segregation in South Carolina schools, a dissenting opinion influenced the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education
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Author: chris Published Date: June 5, 2020 1 Comment on The Farrell-O’Gorman House was built in 1875 by Patrick Farrell. Patrick Farrell came to South Carolina from New York to be educated by a relative and then served in the Confederate Army. Of Irish ancestry himself, Patrick Farrell sent to Ireland for a young man named O’Gorman to help in the business. This young man married Mr. Farrell’s daughter, and they inherited the home
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Author: chris Published Date: June 1, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Hartzell House was built in 1790 by Gen. Erasmus Powe for his daughter, Elizabeth Powe Ervin, and her family, until 1857. It was sold to Justice Henry McIver. During Gen. Williams T. Sherman’s occupation of Cheraw in March, 1865, this was used as his personal headquarters. The McIver family sold the house to the Rev. and Mrs. J.S. Hartzell in 1902. During the early part of this century, the house was used as a “Yankee Resort” known as “The Pines





