Anderson County
53 places on the trail: 53 highway markers.
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 04-03Big Creek Baptist Church 2 miles southOne of the oldest congregations and the mother of several others in Anderson County, it was organized in 1788 by Elder M...
- 04-45CraytonvilleOnce Cherokee hunting grounds, the area was opened in 1784 by settlers obtaining grants for Revolutionary War service. L...
- 04-33DeanDean is named for the Dean family, whose cemetery is located about a mile west. Samuel Dean came to South Carolina from ...
- 04-05Good Hope ChurchOldest Presbyterian church in continuous existence in Anderson County. Organized in 1789. First pastor, Rev. John Simpso...
- 04-44Mt. Pisgah Baptist ChurchMt. Pisgah Baptist Church was founded in 1791 as Brush Creek Church with 10 members. In 1809, the church name was change...
- 04-48Neals Creek Baptist ChurchNeals Creek Baptist Church formally organized in 1803, having previously been an arm of Big Creek Baptist Church near Wi...
- 04-22PendletonOn April 8, 1790, the Justices of the Peace for Pendleton County purchased this land to establish the courthouse town of...
- 04-06Printer John MillerThis London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state pr...
- 04-23Roberts ChurchOrganized by 1789 and sometimes called Simpson's Meetinghouse, this church is one of Anderson County's oldest Presbyteri...
- 04-51The General's RoadAnderson’s Main Street follows the path of the General’s Road. References to the roughly 70-mile route date as early as ...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 04-15AshtabulaThis plantation on the old road to Pickensville has been the home of several prominent S.C. families. Many of its owners...
- 04-09Barkers Creek ChurchFounded in 1821, this is the boyhood church and burial place of Olin D. Johnston. He was decorated for bravery in World ...
- 04-10Barnard Elliott BeeBorn Charleston, S.C. 1824. Graduated West Point 1845. Brigadier General, C.S.A., 1861. Commanded 3rd Brigade, Army of t...
- 04-40Belton AcademyThis site, on a lot donated by Dr. George Brown, was the location of a school for more than a century. Belton Academy, a...
- 04-42Chamberlain-Kay HouseThis house, built c. 1854 for railroad supervisor Charles C. Chamberlain, was among the first homes constructed in Belto...
- 04-39Ebenezer Methodist ChurchThis church, formally organized by about 1800, is thought to be the oldest Methodist congregation in Anderson County. Ci...
- 04-04Farmers HallBuilt 1826-1828/Home of Pendleton Farmers Society./Organized 1815./Within this hall/THOMAS GREEN CLEMSON,/one of the Soc...
- 04-31Generostee A.R.P. ChurchThis church, the first Associate Reformed Presbyterian congregation in what is now Anderson County, was organized about ...
- 04-32Good Hope Presbyterian Church CemeteryThis cemetery, dating from the early 19th century, is at the third site of Good Hope Presbyterian Church, founded in 178...
- 04-30Grace Episcopal ChurchThis parish, organized in 1851 with the Rev. Benjamin Webb as its first vicar, grew out of occasional Episcopal services...
- 04-36Greenville & Columbia RRThe Greenville & Columbia Railroad, founded in 1845, began construction in 1849. It reached Greenville in 1852, with a b...
- 04-13Hopewell ChurchThis Baptist church, which was first located about 1.5 miles northwest, was constituted in 1803. The congregation moved ...
- 04-19MoffettsvilleAt this site once stood the town of Moffettsville, originating with the establishment of Moffett's Mill Post Office on F...
- 04-34Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian ChurchThis is the first known site of Townville Presbyterian Church, founded in this area in 1803 as Nazareth on the Beaverdam...
- 04-14Old Hopewell CemeteryLocated 1.09 miles northwest, this cemetery marks the original site of Hopewell Baptist Church which was constituted in ...
- 04-50Ruhamah ChurchRuhamah Methodist Church organized in 1822 and initially worshipped under a brush arbor. The first church, known as the ...
- 04-07St. John's Methodist ChurchOrganized in 1828, this was the first church in Anderson. A log meeting house built in 1830 on West Benson Street served...
- 04-35St. Paul Methodist ChurchThis church, founded in 1803, held its first services in the home of John Wilson and was first known as Wilson’s Chapel....
- 04-17Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888)A native Philadelphian and leading agriculturist, Mr. Clemson was U.S. chargé d'affaires to Belgium, U.S. Superintendent...
- 04-11University HillThree educational institutions have been in this immediate area: Johnson Female University (1856-63) named for William B...
- 04-12William Bullein Johnson (1782-1862)President of Triennial, Southern, South Carolina Baptist Conventions. Johnson Female University, founded here in 1848 as...
- 04-20Woodburn PlantationSome 200 yards west of here stands Woodburn, built by S.C. Lieutenant Governor Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by 1832. Dr. ...
Civil War (1861-1865)
- 04-29Clement Hoffman StevensConfederate Brig. Gen. Clement H. Stevens (1821-1864) is buried nearby in the Bee family plot. Born in Connecticut, Stev...
- 04-08Confederate SkirmishOn May 1, 1865, cadets from the Arsenal Academy at Columbia, under Capt. John Peyre Thomas, who were enroute from Greenv...
- 04-28Sandy Springs Camp GroundThis Methodist camp ground, named for the large spring nearby, dates to 1828, when a fifteen-acre site was purchased fro...
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 04-24African American School SiteThe one-room frame public school, organized shortly after the Civil War, housed 76 students and 1 teacher by 1870. The s...
- 04-53Mt. Sinai United Methodist Church and CemeteryThis is the original site of Mt. Sinai United Methodist Church, an historically African American congregation organized ...
New South (1877-1913)
- 04-25Anderson "The Electric City"Anderson was dubbed "The Electric City" in 1895 when William C. Whitner, an engineer and native of Anderson, built a hyd...
- 04-18Anderson MillsFounded in 1888, Anderson Cotton Mills, later a division of Abney Mills, was the first textile plant established in the ...
- 04-27Carnegie LibraryHonea Path is the smallest town of the fourteen South Carolina communities with libraries funded by the Andrew Carnegie ...
- 04-02High Shoals2.9 miles south on Rocky River. Anderson Water, Light & Power Co., organized in 1894 by William C. Whitner, was successf...
- 04-46Latimer Memorial Methodist ChurchEst. in 1876, the Belton Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was chartered with 44 members, including the Harris, Smith, ...
- 04-26Oliver Bolt's Cotton GinThe first cotton gin to be powered by electricity transmitted over a long distance stood near this site on the farm of O...
- 04-43Pelzer SchoolsThe first Pelzer Mills School, built in 1881, was a two-story frame building. The school was described as having “the ai...
- 04-01Portman Shoals [First Marker]Half mile West on Seneca River the Portman Shoals Power Plant, built by William C. Whitner, began in 1897 the transmissi...
- 04-21Richard W. SimpsonBorn in 1840, Colonel Simpson, lawyer, farmer, and legislator, drafted and executed Thomas Green Clemson's will, establi...
- 04-49Rock Mills Undenominational Singing ConventionMt. Sinai Methodist Church (1/2 mi. S) was the home church of the Rock Mills Undenominational Singing Convention, later ...
- 04-52Taylor Brothers HomesiteThe four Taylor brothers, “first family” of the Negro Leagues, were acclaimed baseball professionals raised in Varennes ...
- 04-47White Plains SchoolPreviously housed in a log cabin ½ mi. E, White Plains School moved to this site by 1890. At least sixty pupils attended...
- 04-16Williamston Female CollegeThis college was founded Feb. 12, 1872, by the Reverend Samuel Lander, DD, Methodist minister. The college building stoo...