Pendleton Farmers’ Society
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jesse C. Stribling Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0201
Scope and Contents
The papers contain clippings, correspondence, enlistment papers, lists, a small notebook and a statement. The clippings relate to cotton and dairy farming, livestock shows and farmers' organizations, including the Pendleton Farmer's Society, for the period 1889-1890. The correspondence concerns the sale of cattle in 1882, the suggested organization of an "Agricultural Society" in upstate South Carolina in 1890 and the return of a Negro who "belongs" to Stribling from the Edgefield, SC, jail....
Dates:
1862-1865, 1882, 1889-1890, 1906, circa 1925, 1979, undated
Pendleton Farmers' Society Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0210
Abstract
The Pendleton Farmers' Society was organized on June 12, 1815, as the "Farmers Society of Pendleton District"; its first president was Thomas Pinckney, Jr. The Pendleton Farmers' Society's original building, the Pendleton Farmers' Hall located on the square in Pendleton, South Carolina, is considered to be the oldest farmers' hall in the United States.
Dates:
1815 - 1965
- Subject
- African Americans -- South Carolina. 1
- Agricultural exhibitions -- South Carolina. 1
- Agriculture -- History. -- South Carolina 1
- Agriculture -- Societies, etc. -- United States 1
- Dairy farming -- South Carolina. 1
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Pendleton. 1
- Livestock exhibitions -- South Carolina. 1
- Pendleton (S.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
- Pendleton (S.C.) -- History. 1
- Soil management -- South Carolina -- Pendleton. 1
- South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
- South Carolina. -- Architecture 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1 ∧ less
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