Fort Hill Plantation (S.C.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Ernest McPherson Lander Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0280
Abstract
Ernest M. Lander had a distinguished career in teaching, research and service as a professor of history at Clemson University. The collection contains correspondence, memos, minutes and other materials relating to Lander’s participation in various professional organizations. It also documents his service to the University community as a member of the Faculty Senate, the Graduate Committee, and other committees. The collection also contains material related to Lander’s teaching duties, and...
Dates:
1581 - 1988; 1955 - 1988
Essie Boggs Collection (Hester Prince Boggs Collection)
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0106
Scope and Contents
A card memorializing William Pinckney Starke who died October 12, 1886 and a typed copy of "Reminiscences of Mrs. Prince ... March 9, 1928".
Dates:
1886-1928
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
Floride Isabella Lee, By Her Next Friend, Gideon Lee, Complainant, Against Richard W. Simpson, Defendant, 1889 in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Fourth Circuit-District of South Carolina: Documents, 1856-1894
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0256
Abstract
This collection documents Gideon Lee's April 22, 1889 suit on behalf of his minor daughter, Floride Isabella Lee in order to contest the will of the late Thomas Green Clemson, who had died on April 6, 1888. Thomas Green Clemson had made it known through the codicil to his will that on the Fort Hill estate would be established an agricultural college. Floride Isabella Lee, being Clemson's only surviving heir, made an attempt through litigation to block this action.
Dates:
1879 - 1995; 1915 - 1992
Fort Hill - Conservation Survey
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0387
Abstract
A conservation survey by Dr. Nathan Stolow, a conservation consultant from Williamsburg, Virginia, of the John C. Calhoun Mansion and Hanover House on the campus of Clemson University. The report is based on a three day conservation consulvation visit to Clemson University. Dr. Stolow was asked to carry out a "study of the condition of the Calhoun Mansion and Hanover Houseand make recommendations for modifications." Dr. Stolow had complete access to the Calhoun Mansion and Hanover House and...
Dates:
July 25, 1988
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
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0181
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, blueprints and architectural drawings created as a result of Historic American Buildings Surveys in 1934, 1940, 1960 and 1963 in three South Carolina upstate counties. The correspondence was generated mainly by Mary Stevenson in 1963 and 1968 and pertains to the historic buildings in this collection. In 1960 Jack Boucher from HABS photographed historic buildings in the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens. The...
Dates:
1934, 1940, 1960, 1963, and 1968
Holmes Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0001
Introduction
This collection consists mainly of material created and assembled by Professors Alester Garden Holmes and George Raymond Sherrill while they were writing Thomas Green Clemson: His Life and Work. It includes research notes, copies of correspondence related to Clemson and manuscript versions of the book. Holmes' correspondence documents various aspects of his career as a teacher at Clemson College and a historian in South Carolina. There is also material...
Dates:
1789-1977
John C. Calhoun Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0200
Scope and Contents Note
The papers consist of correspondence and other materials documenting the career of Calhoun, the Calhoun and Clemson families, and United States politics during the early to mid-nineteenth century. Included are agreements, articles, clippings, correspondence, lists, notes, maps, microfilm, photographs, poems, receipts, speeches, statements, a survey book, an autograph draft and a photocopy of the South Carolina Exposition and other material.Most of...
Dates:
1784 - 1980; 1802 - 1850
Mary Stevenson Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0353
Abstract
The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...
Dates:
1784 - 1995; Majority of material found within , 1960-1988