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Beech Island Agricultural Society Records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0209
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a transmittal letter, minutes of meetings, a journal of proceedings and publications. The 1947 letter tansferring the collection to the Libraries is from Dr. Robert F. Poole, president of Clemson University. Minutes include those of the A.B.C. Farmers Club for the period 1846-1848; from the Beech Island Agricultural Club for 1856-1862 (the first nine pages of this period are missing, although it forms the bulk of the collection); and minutes from 1872-1874. Some of...
Dates: 1846 - 1947; 1856 - 1862
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Black Creek Agricultural Society Minutes

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0208
Scope and Contents The Black Creek Agricultural Society Minutes were a typed copy of a transcript from an original manuscript the "Coker Manuscript Black Creek Agricultural Society 1860-1861"; the location of the original manuscript is unknown, but there is a typed manuscript volume of the "Black Creek Agricultural Society, Hartsville. Minute book, 1860-1861' at the South Caroliana Library of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.The typed copy of the minutes was prepared in 1938 by...
Dates: 1860-1861, 1938
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Ethel Mitchell collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0005
Scope and Contents Carbon typescripts (38 pages) of the manuscript, The Romance of Fort Hill, written by Mrs. Mitchell in 1938. A photograph of a drawing of Fort Hill, the plantation of John C. Calhoun, drawn to Mrs. Mitchell's specifications, given by Jack Tuttle to the Library in 1961. This photograph is filed in the Mss Negatives and Photographs file. November 23, 1940, copy of A.G. Holmes letter to Mrs. Mitchell concerning the restoration of Fort Hill, witnessed by Muriel...
Dates: 1938, 1940, 1955, 1961
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Fort Hill Mansion registers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0003
Scope and Content

Registers listing visitors to the home of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), located on the Clemson University campus. From 1893-1932 no register was kept. Mrs. A.G. Holmes reintroduced the register beginning March 31, 1932.

Dates: 1888-1893, 1932-1937
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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Agricultural implements. 2
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Cotton -- Fertilizers. 2
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Fertilizers. 2
Fort Hill Plantation (S.C.) 2
Historic buildings -- South Carolina. 2
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Slaveholders -- South Carolina. 2
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Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- South Carolina. 1
Roads -- South Carolina. 1
Soil management -- South Carolina -- Beech Island. 1
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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 2
Beech Island Agricultural and Police Society 1
Black Creek Agricultural Society 1
Clemson University 1
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Clemson, Thomas Green, 1807-1888 1
Hammond, Harry 1
Holmes, Alester G. (Alester Garden), 1876-1953 1
Holmes, Lila Speer Pennel, 1891-1977 1
Mitchell, Ethel B. 1
Poole, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1893-1958 1
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