Fort Hill Plantation (S.C.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Thomas Green Clemson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0002
Scope and Content Note
Thomas Green Clemson's papers reflect his intellectual interests in mining, geology, scientific agriculture and the promotion of education; his cultured back-ground as an artist, art collector, linguist and diplomat; and his personal life as a plantation owner, businessman, husband and father. A pocket journal, 1832-1837, is the first piece of Clemson's writing in this collection. Mr. Charles R. Clemson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, donated this brief journal and its typed transcription to...
Dates:
1786 - 2000; 1844 - 1888