Pendleton (S.C.) -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes Adger Mansfield Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0146
Scope and Contents
The Agnes Adger Mansfield collection contains three folders. Folder 1 contains information about the Adger family, in particular about James Adger II and his son, Dr. John Bailey Adger. Folder 2 contains information about the Ravenel family, in particular about Henry Edmund Ravenel Jr., his wife Agnes Adger Ravenel, and his mother, Selina Porcher Ravenel. Folder 3 contains two histories of Pendleton, South Carolina.
Dates:
1927-1965
Clermont H. Lee Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0232
Scope and Contents
The main portion of the papers consist of copies of the letters of Dr. Ralph Emms Elliott and his wife Margaret Cowper Elliott for the period 1835-1848, typed and edited by Clermont H. Lee in 1977 and a typed copy (created by Lee in 1985) of "History of a Small Mahogany Table", dictated by Phoebe Caroline Seabrook to her son William Elliott Seabrook in August-September 1873.The Elliott letters, written to relatives in Beaufort, SC, and Savannah, GA, describe the daily...
Dates:
1977, 1985
Dr. Thomas J. Pickens Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0228
Scope and Contents
The papers contain accounts, a commission, two letters, a lien, and receipts, statements of account and tax receipts. Most of the accounts, receipts and statements related to Pickens' medical practice, including accounts for his services to the G. W. Miller family; a running account with James Hunter's Sons (Hunter's Store) in Pendleton, SC, where groceries and general merchandise that were exchanged for medical services, as well as several accounts with James Hunter; and an undated letter...
Dates:
1856-1860, 1862, 1865-1867, 1869-1882, 1885, 1887, 1889-1895, undated
"Family Life at Pendleton"
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0179
Scope and Contents
"Family Life at Pendleton" is a photocopy of the third chapter of Langdon Cheves: Planting and Politics in South Carolina, 1829-1841, a thesis written in 1968 by Huff while a student at Duke University. Dr. Huff gave permission for the copy to be made. The paper contains a description of Pendleton in the 1830s with a brief history of the Pendleton District. Activities of the Cheves family are described as well as activities of some of the other...
Dates:
1968
Foundation for Historic Restoration in Pendleton Area Records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0222
Scope and Contents
The records of the Foundation include booklets, brochures, clippings, correspondence, lists, minutes, newsletter drafts, notes, receipts, reports and speeches. Most of the collection consists of notes and copies of drafts of annual meeting (1979-1984) and Board of Directors meeting (1972, 1974-1984, 1987, undated) minutes and newsletter drafts (1974, 1976-1977). There are also brochures for Ashtabula and Woodburn as well as for historic buildings in the Pendleton area in general; clippings...
Dates:
1960, 1964-1965, 1968-1970, 1972-1985, 1987, undated
Hunter's Store Records - Pendleton, South Carolina
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0130
Introduction
The records of the Hunter's Store document the operations of a family blacksmith and then general store, 1840's - 1920's, in Pendleton, South Carolina. The records were donated by Gaillard Hunter in 1964 and one ledger was added by purchase in 2024. They were formerly cataloged as 64-1.
Dates:
1847 - 1922
James H. Saye Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0237
Scope and Contents
The collection includes account books and accounts, advertisements (mostly for farm equipment), bills of sale (including those for slaves), a Confederate bond, a commission, the constitution of the Fair Forest Temperance Society (undated), correspondence, a "cotton book", a "cyphering book" (part of one of the account books), a deed, estate settlements, indentures, land grants, photographic negatives, receipts, weaving designs and other material.Most of the items relate to the...
Dates:
1766 - 1917; 1805 - 1866
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
John R. McCravy Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0229
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of an oversize volume containing the centennial issue of the Easley Progress, dated October 2, 1974, with a number of articles on the history of Easley and a smaller volume of over seventy clippings, many undated, on the history of Clemson, Easley, Liberty, Pendleton, Seneca and other locations in Anderson, Oconee and Pickens Counties. Almost all of the articles in the latter volume were written by McCravy as part of his "Libertarian...
Dates:
1967-1975, undated
Pendleton District Courthouse and Jail Buildings Collection
Collection — Oversize_folder 1
Identifier: Mss-0235
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photostatic copies of items from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History filed under "Public Improvements--Buildings; Petitions 1826; Pendleton District--Courthouse". The items in this collection include a 1819 petition to purchase a lot to build a jail in Pendleton, SC; an 1826 memorial and a statement concerning the erection of a new courthouse in Pendleton, the former having a plan of the village appended to it; an 1826 certification concerning the...
Dates:
1969 - 1969