Category: Colleton County
Colleton County South Carolina

Author: chris Published Date: June 17, 2020 Leave a Comment on The von Lehe House was built in 1914 by a northern lawyer in 1914. This was the home of John D. von Lehe, a farmer and merchant. Von Lehe was born in Oconee County and moved to Walterboro after purchasing the Rock Spring Plantation in the 1900s

Author: chris Published Date: April 14, 2019 Leave a Comment on Originally founded in Jacksonboro in 1728. This summer location of the Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro had a structure here in 1821. That one was replaced in 1860 and was destroyed by a tornado in 1879. It was replaced by another frame church in 1880, which burned in 1966. The present brick sanctuary, the fourth on this site, was built in 1969

Author: chris Published Date: February 19, 2019 Leave a Comment on The Novit-Siegel Building is a 1890 brick building that began life as Zalin’s Department Store. About 1918, Albert Novit moved to Walterboro and opened his emporium down the street. In the 1930s he moved the operation into this building. Novit’s Department Store became Novit-Siegel when Sam Siegel of Anderson married into the family business