Agriculture has always been an important part of our lives here in South Carolina!
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Main Street, Hampton, 1949. The clock tower in the business district was installed in 1948. Modern Hampton County is primarily agricultural, although there is also an industrial base built on the...
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A Fourth of July picnic celebration at Frogmore, photographed in color in 1939 by Marion Post for the Farm Security Administration. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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The Corn Exposition in Florence, around 1900, celebrated the rich agricultural produce of this region. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
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This view of the Darlington town square gives a good view of the fourth courthouse, built in 1903. Darlington was an important cotton market, and farmers are gathered on the courthouse square around...
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Main Street in Conway, around 1906. The township plan implemented in 1731 to protect Charleston with a ring of settlements, called for a town along the west bank of the Waccamaw River, originally...
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The Town Hall in Cheraw, built in 1858 and photographed here in 1890, is still used as a meeting place for the Masons (who helped pay for it) and for city offices. County seat of Chesterfield County...
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The town of Camden was one of the first official settlements to be laid out in the interior of South Carolina in the 1730s. Settlers flooded into the backcountry during the quarter century of peace...
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The county courthouse and Confederate monument in Bennettsville, county seat of Marlboro County, in a 1915 postcard view. Marlboro County has been an important agricultural center (first for the...
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Although Anderson itself is primarily an industrial city, it is the county seat of an important agricultural county. Cattle are shown being judged at the "Fat Cattle Show," March 25, 1941, at McGees...
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Plantation owners demanded more than just obedience from their slaves. They also demanded things like loyalty, respect, love, and duty. Whippings, and solitary confinement, were common punishments for...