Reported missing
Preston Brooks Dinner
National attention was focused here on Oct. 3, 1856, when some 10,000 people honored Preston S. Brooks, Congressman from this district, with a public dinner in vindication of his assault on Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Senate floor for a speech insulting to this state. The Preston Brooks home was five miles south on Highway 246.
24-04Greenwood County
Where it stands. Ninety Six Visitor's Center, 97 E. Main St., Ninety Six