Aiken

Aiken County Courthouse | History Of SC Slide Collection

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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...

A Hunting Party In Aiken, 1910 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A hunting party in at Aiken, around 1910. The dry, pleasant climate attracted winter visitors to Aiken as early as the 1850s, but its real expansion as a winter resort took place after the Civil War...

Aerial View Of Aiken, 1956 | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial view of Aiken, around 1956. Courtesy of the Aiken County Historical Museum.