Postcard view of downtown Anderson, S.C. Courtesy of the Wingard Collection – 2013 One of over 1,000 historic addresses – sites in Anderson County to explore and enjoy on the pages of Roots and Recall!
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Courtesy of the Fredrick Tucker Collection – 2017
Von Hasseln, J. H, and George B Brown. Map of Anderson County, South Carolina. Anderson, S.C.: J.H. von Hasseln, 1897. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress
East Benson Street (Brian Scott,2016)
Courtesy of the Revels Postcard Collection -2015
East Church Street (Brian Scott, 2016)
North Main Street – Courtesy of the Wingard Postcard Collection, 2013
134 North Main Street (Brian Scott, 2016)
117-123 West Church Street (Historic American Buildings Survey)
Von Hasseln, J. H, and George B Brown. Map of Anderson County, South Carolina. Anderson, S.C.: J.H. von Hasseln, 1897. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress
Orr Mills – Birdseye View
1852 Map of the Belton S.C.
Images courtesy of owner Cathi Mytko – 2016
Anderson PO and Court building. Courtesy of the AFLLC Collection – 2017
Anderson County – North
Anderson County was originally part of what was then Pendleton District
Von Hasseln, J. H, and George B Brown. Map of Anderson County, South Carolina. Anderson, S.C.: J.H. von Hasseln, 1897. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress
Boscobel (1885, drawn by Louise Marcum)
Courtesy of the Wingard Postcard Collection – 2013
Image courtesy of photographer Bill Segars – 2015
Postcard image of the famous hall. Courtesy of the AFLLC Collection – 2017
Train schedule for the Anderson area of S.C. as advertised in the Yorkville Enquirer in the 1870s.
M.B. Paine image of 1934 – Images(s) and information from: The Library of Congress – HABS Photo Collection
Summers in Pendleton: In 1840, Langdon Cheves, a lowcountry rice planter, had 180 slaves on the Savannah River. By 1850, he owned the largest labor force in St. Peter’s Parish with 283 slaves. On the eve of the Civil War, Delta Plantation had 289 slaves working 1,100 acres of rice fields which produced 44,000 bushels, or approximately 1,056,000 pounds, of rice.” On the plantation was a steam rice mill, two steam-powered threshing machines, an overseers house, an owner’s house, and necessary outbuildings along the river. There were also two slave villages: one by the river and one with a slave hospital on the high pine land behind the rice fields. In 1845, the slave community at Delta Plantation consisted of 112 full hands, 8 male and 9 female half-hands, 3 drivers, 3 carpenters, 2 blacksmiths, a watchman, 2 trunk minders, 2 dike men, 3 field cooks, 2 children’s cooks, and a hospital nurse. At the residence there were 3 domestics: 1 in the garden, 1 in the cookhouse, and a trusted servant who had been dispatched to prepare the Cheves’s summer residence in Pendleton.
Information from: A History of Beaufort County, Vol. I, Rowland, Moore and G.C. Rogers, Jr. – Un. of S.C. Press, 1996
