Almost all of the images in this collection document a particular South Carolina place at a specific time in its history. This section, organized alphabetically is not intended, therefore, as a comprehensive list of every South Carolina community. It is actually a fairly impressionistic look at the county seats and rural villages, as well as the cities, in which South Carolinians live and work. For several towns and cities (Beaufort, Camden, Charleston, Columbia, Darlington, Georgetown, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Sumter), an effort has been made to select several images that show how that place has changed over time. Other places were chosen for special features that have made that town unique; still others have been chosen because they illustrate the features that many towns in the state have shared.
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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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A mill village in York. Photo from the Works Progress Administration, 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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A new section of the Vaucluse Mill Village of the Graniteville Manufacturing Company. Photo by J.F. Sofge, Graniteville, December 19, 1947. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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A Pawley's Island hotel in 1893. Pawley's is one of the oldest beach resorts in the state, and has managed (in spite of having a railroad causeway early in the 20th century, and an automobile causeway...
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A plan of Charles Town in 1704, drawn by Edward Crisp, and used as an insert map to a larger map of the province of Carolina, published in London in 1711. This copy is a reproduction of the original...
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A street scene of Allendale, looking south, around 1951. The present site of Allendale was determined by the construction of the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad through the area around 1872...
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Aiken County Courthouse, photographed by J.A. Palmer, around 1890. The town of Aiken was laid out in 1834, at the western end of the Charleston-Hamburg Railway line, built to carry cotton from the...
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The Anderson town square and county courthouse around 1908. Anderson County was carved out of the old Pendleton District, created in 1789 from Cherokee Native American lands deeded to the state in...
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Belton, in Anderson County, is noted for its unusual standpipe or water tower. Here, the standpipe can be seen in the background of the Belton Square, around 1909. The town, like many other South...
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Clarendon County Courthouse, Manning, after a tornado in 1903 had swept through the town, uprooting trees and blowing the roofs off most of the stores on Main Street. Clarendon County was organized in...
