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Church of the h -:, <-,-_. a*.*i•• "Mtlford- ^-©Manning©s Jolly") Bnegt burg, built, 1850. of frise de terre; suc community house in South Carolina Historic Spots in Sumter County cessor to Claremnnt Episcopal built in 1838-40 by Governor John I* church, organized 1788. Organ and Manning at a cost of $96.000 (exclusive) * tamed glass windows purchased in of slave labor) of Connecticut granite, Europe One of two churches in which was brought by ship to Char-1 Recommended for Permanent Markers South Carolina having a reredos. Joel ieston. thence by boat up the San tee j R Poinsett is buried here. and Wateree rivers, and hauled from] Site of village of Statrburg. county the landing near Manchester, by I seat of Clarcmont district promoted ; wagons to "Milford," The architect by General Sumter as the capital of '. was a brother of General Potter, who Sumter county is unusually rich in , High Hills Bnptist church second | South Carolina. while using the house as headquarters, history; during th, year> when Jijs- © Site of Waring1 s cotton factory gave orders to burn this beautiful lory was in the making Sumvr wen lina. built 1770. Doctor Furman. found- ,H7**-179Q) mentioned by Dalcho. tribute to his brother©s art Governor were leaders in every important CI**MS. ( Drayton and Mills. First cotton fac Manning appealed to the Yankee gen tory in the South. eral to spare "Milford" for his broth deeds are at last to !-e rerniame&t©.y A • Site of Mayrant©s Cotton factory. er©s sake, but orders to fire the roof commemorated, U fortunate; for even * d m Charles May rant manufactured cot went forward. Only the timely ar-| now except to the few for whom ton thread, hauled it north in fpur- rival of a courier with the news of local or family history holds a special wh; horae wagons, brought back pig-iron Lee©s surrender saved the house. charm little beyond the scanty fact! 7/(U-Wd and mad* farm implements for the "Milford" now belong, to Emory W.| recorded In a school_ textbooks is fifty years the »um- planters. Clark of Detroit common kr Grave of "York." Confederate "Milford" Quail farm, where under i mer home of the Ratledge family. the supervision of the South Carolina on markers, composed of Col. \t "The Ruins," where Gen Thomas soldier shot, while ill In "Midway" ham M. Manning (chairman). E. W. ] Sumter and his family refugeed dur i house, by Potter©s soldiers. game commission. bird, are being i Dabbs, Jr.. Mrs. John Frierson . Mrs. "Mount Ararat" home of Matthew grown for distribution in depleted j ing the Revolution; later the home of areas. E. E. Rembert, Joe Richardson, John Wayrant. co-hero with John and Mrs. NT © Jam**, who settled here about 1738. Si Mark©s Episcopal church, or (jy has selected He was one of Marions officers. The ganized 1757 in WilTlamftburg county; to be marked: © name has be*n changed to "Argyle." burned in the Revolution and rebuilt * Vista" there. It was purchased in 1838 Site of liome of WilUam S*under., Site* I by Robert M. De Veaux I soon afterward. Just over the Claren-f city .irst white man to tike up land in j don line. Thia church wa. burned] , changed to "The Ruins." Sumter county <1T34V t and rebuilt at Rimini. Thia, too. waa© o * He wu an Indian trader who named burned. Present church, designed by ! the streams he crossed "Swift creek." architect of "Milford," built 1850. St. "Rafting creek," "Beech creek," and Mark©s 15 built in the center of an old, many others in Sumter and Kershawr race track. Home of Governor Stephen Decatur counties that are known by thd that she was "born in Sumter, S. C.." Miller, ardent proponent of states© Fulton©s Cross Roads, near cite of Site of the home where Samuel same names today. Fulton Cotton Factory and Fulton i. United States senator and con- mill village. Used water power. 25 once lived. He moved* to and father of the. author of j*"Rembert Hall." mentioned so often where he became a national By Bishop Asbury in his "Journal" as white operative, and much .lav* "A Diary from Dbcie." The house was labor. Manufactured osnaburgs; LOW figure. His name was incorporated bought (1838) by Gabriel Ellison, free a place where he enjoyed always a mto our language as the name of un- cordial hospitality and a highly prized spindles and $55,000 capital, was dU* Negro, maker of "Ellison Cotton Gins," mantled for the metal during the Con* branded cattle "Maverick." for fifty yean the standard gin of the friendship with the mailer of U.* Home of Governor Richard I. Man South. home, federate war. Operated as a cotton ning. World war governor of South Vt©edgefield plantation. home of factory 1816-60 Carolina. In the yard here is the "Borough House. pre-Revolutionary James R Aycock. pioneer in turpen* JOSIE PLATT PARLER. ©Hampton Qak," under which Gen. of Thomas Hooper, brother of tme and cotton industries in the Re Wade Hampton stood to make his ad- Williams Hooper, signer of the construction period. In the early part Lrc-5s in the memorable campaign of Declaration of Independence, from of the 20th century this way tha 1876. North Carolina. Dr. W. W. Anderson- largest cotton plantation in South The home of Gen E. W. Molse. who son of Colonel Andersen of Maryland, Carolina. was elected adjutant general of hero of the battle of Camden Mar . Site of "Home Place." horn* of CoL South Carolina on the Hampton ried Mary Jane McKenzi*. adopted Richard Singleton, "Napoleon of the ticket. daughter and niece of the Hoopers, Turf." father of Angelica Singleton, The home 6l Miia Elizabeth White, who inherited the house. Birthplace who married US39> Abram Van Bu- contemporary artist of nation-wide of their sons. Lieut. Gen. Richard H. ren, son of President Martin Van recognition. ("Fighting Dick") Andcrson, C. S- A., Buren and presided at the Whit* Elsewhere In County. and Major W. W. Anderson, M. D, Rouse during the Van Buren adnMnls* In the county: C. S. A., both of whom resigned from tration. The president and his cabinet Site of the battle of Dingle©s Mill. the United States army to join the 1 came by special train to be present at April I, IMS, between Potter Brigade Confederate army. Both had fought ,© the wedding Angelica ia the only and the Reserve South Carolina in the Mexican war. Doctor Ander South CaroUnian who ever presided [militia. son kept, over a long period, weather at the Whit* House. Concord Presbyterian church or records which have been invaluable Site of old town of Manchester, list igan ii«d 1808. Land donated by Gen. ! to both United States and South Caro- ed by Simms, 1840, as one of the tan (Thomas Sumter. Additional land | Una weather bureaus. Maj. William largest towns in South Carolina. donated. 1841. by R- McCoy and j Harrison Saunders, grandson of Doc- Famous in racing animals. I Robert Muldrow © ton Anderson, was an aviator in the "Melrose" plantation house bull* Salem, Black River, Presbyterian A. E. F., was the first pilot-observer before the Revolution by Matthew hurch, organized 1759. Land donated, : In the American forces, was wounded , Singleton, officers m Snow campaign 1759 by Capt, David Anderson and an- j after flying over the German lines and Revolution. Refuge of Sumter and I other tract, 1830, by Robert Wiiher- for a year, and was sent to Fort Sill. Ma ri on as they aa 1 lied forth from ! spoon. Log church built 1759; frame 1 Okla., where he waa killed when mak i their hiding places in the swamp, to building. 1758; brick structure. 1804 ing a forced landing in a fog. He was I attack the unwary British. present church of brick aad granite decorated by every Allied nation. J "Singleton Graveyard," whar* erected 1846. In this churchyard u "Borough House" was used during ; George McDuffie and his father-in* buried Matthew Peterson Mayes, the Revolution as headquarters by law. Col. Richard Singleton and mem founder of the town of Mayesville and both Cornwallis and Greene. Potter©s bers of the Singleton and Brohua signer of the Ordinance ©of Seoaaawm. army left their mark here in the families are buried. Concord and Salem churches are ID sword thrusts in the doors of the old Site of "Homesley.©* birthplace of the eastern part of Sumter county. sideboard still in use in the house. South Carolina©s World war governor. In the High HllK The garden at "Borough House © was Richard I. Manning, In the high hills of the San tee: laid out by Joel R. Poinsett, who died | "BloomhiH" plantation home of WU- Site of "Acton," home of Francis while on a visit to his friend, the first © Ham Richardson (1735-1786) pioneer Kuiloch. United States minister to Dr. W. W. Anderson. On the lawn breeder of fine race horses, planter Russia; later the home of Mrs. Rave- is a 400-yews-old oak. called "The of rice aud indigo, owner of a larg* nel. author of several books about Spy Oak" because General Sumter quarrv of "burr stone." Marion. Sum* Charleston. The house was burned m hanged three Tory spies from its I ter. John Rmledge formed hert a 1911 while being used by the General branches. Here, too, are the oldest pleasant retreat at various times dur* Sumter Memorial academy, taught by pyramidal cypresses in America, ing the Revolution. Col. J. J. Dargan. planted from seed brought by Count "Bloomhill" Graveyard here art "Home House." where Gen. Thomas Binda from the home in Italy. buried Wililam Richardson. Judge J. Sumter, "Gamecock of the Revolu < Binda married a daughter of Col. Smythe Richardson and other, of thia tion" lived; later the home of his son, Thomas Sumter. Jr.) In the garden family. Interesting gravestone, to Col. Thomas Sumter. Jr., and his wife, are several rare and beautiful shrub* slaves. the Countess Nathalie de Lag*; and brought by the second Doctor Ander after that, the home of their son. Col. son from Mexico. This Doctor Ander Sebastian Sumter of the Mexican war son performed the first successful and the Conferedate war. operation for a fraction of the jaw Grave of Gen. Thomas Sumter. and bone. Catholic chapel where Mrs. Thomas Sumter. Jr.. worshiped, under the floor of which she is buried. "The smallest church in America."