In April a planning committee of the Kershaw County Historical Society visited the spacious and beautifully revived landscaping of an historic garden of winding woodland paths on an artfully terraced hillside that slopes beside an early ninteenth-centuty plantation home, The…
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Jan. 21 Program – “Heal The Earth One Garden at a Time ”
🌿 The Dargans—Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan—Present: “Cultivating the Spirit of Place—Landscape Perspective for Historic Properties & Homes” The Kershaw County Historical Society invites you to join us for an enlightening afternoon with Mary Palmer Dargan, a landscape architect, teacher,…
Camden Highlights in London
© Joan Inabinet (Adapted from first printing Dec.19, 2023, as KCHS’s monthly column in the Camden, SC, Chronicle-Independent.) Camden, South Carolina, recently garnered special attention in a cheerfully breezy London newspaper review which advised readers to check out a webpage…
Camden, an Inland Port on the Wateree River
To a large audience of more than 80 persons, the Kershaw County Historical Society and the Camden Archives and Museum co-hosted a program Nov. 7, 2021, featuring detailed new research on the Wateree River and its fascinating history. The main…
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Mystery Of A Wateree Swamp Skeleton
You will know about this true story if you are following the Historical Society’s monthly column! Are you reading it? The Kershaw County Historical Society column appears by permission for first printing on the second or third Friday of the…
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Summer 2021 at the Bonds Conway House
Rain storms and high winds brought broken limbs, and grass and fences required regular attention outside our headquarters at the Bonds Conway House. Thanks to our volunteers who helped out! Our old-time pear tree, transplanted years ago we are told…
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A Turning Point
An audience of more than 50 persons, socially distancing with lawn chairs and masks, encircled the front of the Camden Archives and Museum April 25, 2021, for the first Kershaw County Historical Society public program since the local outbreak of…
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“A Turning Point” Invitation
At the Camden Archives & Museum Co-Sponsored by The Kershaw County Historical Society We invite you to observe a Revolutionary turning pointSunday afternoon, April 25, 2021240th Anniversary on this date of the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill 3:00 p.m. Outdoor program…
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Inviting You To Change 2020 to 2021
Your Renewal or New Membership helps us continue preserving Kershaw County History Thanks to our current Members! Your support has been faithful and has been valued in Covid year 2020. For what we hope to be a brighter year ahead,…
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In the Interim of Coronavirus Covid-19
Since our most recent Society program (Feb. 16, 2020, see views below), we have all been thrust into the present history-making period of unexpected changes, adaptations, and waiting. Now in mid-May we pause broad societal reflections to mark within that…
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