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Agriculture -- Societies, etc. -- South Carolina

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Darlington County Agricultural Society Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0043
Scope and Contents

There is a nine page history of the society written by J.M. Napier which focuses upon its early years and gives some genealogical information about its members. Also, a three page account of the 97th annual meeting of the Society at which Dr. R.F. Poole introduced the topic of discussion, 'The Farmer's Part in the War Effort', also written by Napier.

Dates: 1942

Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0020
Scope and Contents Constitution and by-laws; financial reports; proceedings at St. Louis, Missouri, December 3-7, 1889; county reports listing members and officers from Abbeville, Kershaw, Lexington and Oconee, 1908. Two issues of The Farmers' Union Sun (Columbia, S.C.), May 28 and June 11, 1908 (shelved with oversize S.C. newspapers). Receipt, September 12, 1905, Anderson Farmers Union Warehouse Company. Charter, April 15, 1905, from state of...
Dates: 1889-1908

J. F. Thomas letter

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Mss-0007
Scope and Contents

A.L.S. from J.F. Thomas of Charlotte, North Carolina to Thomas W. Holloway, Secretary of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, Anderson, South Carolina, concerning Thomas' rustproof seed wheat.

Dates: August 12, 1882

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

South Carolina Guernsey Cattle Club Records

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: Mss-0015
Scope and Contents

Constitution and By-laws, adapted as amended, February 1953, and signed by the officers and directors.

Dates: February 20, 1953