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Great Day at Liberty Hill!

Enjoy views of full-house attendance of 85 persons filling Bettie Richards Hall at Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church Sunday for the Kershaw County Historical Society’s announced May 24 meeting. Many thanks to church members who graciously welcomed us with a delightful spread of refreshments and invited

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Program May 24 in Liberty Hill

The Society would enjoy having you at our program Sunday, May 24, 2015, at 3 p.m. in the lovely and historic setting of Liberty Hill, SC, in the fellowship hall of Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church. The setting is appropriate for

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SC Humanities Director Visits Us

The Executive Director of the South Carolina Humanities Council, Randy Akers (right) was welcomed to the Bonds Conway House on April 30 and thanked for the Council’s past assistance to the Historical Society’s work, especially their contributions to the research funding for

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Welcoming the SC Humanities!

The public may also visit us Thursday, April 30, from 1-5 p.m., when we welcome visitors to our headquarters, the Bonds Conway House, 811 Fair Street, during the Humanities Festival held annually by the South Carolina Humanities Council  and hosted this year

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Archaeology—Research Basic

Archaeologist Chad Long on Sunday, March 1, 2015, brought new information to the local community as he compared recent excavation findings at two sites—Historic Camden Revolutionary War Park and Ayers Town, a post-Revolutionary Catawba settlement in Lancaster County. Nearly 60 persons braved blustery weather

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Historic Church Architecture

A Passion for Old Churches: Spotlight on Architectural Treasures in Kershaw County  Bill Segars, who confesses he has a passion for old church buildings, was guest speaker at the Kershaw County Historical Society’s December 7, 2014, program in Camden at John Knox

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Welcoming South Carolina Historical Society Tour Guests

At our headquarters, the Bonds Conway House, we were delighted Sunday, November 2, to have welcomed nearly 225 of the distinguished tour guests of the South Carolina Historical Society! We were Site Number 1 on the Camden tour, and we tried to give our visitors cause

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We are 60 and very active!

The Society is beginning new activities after observing its 60th anniversary with a dynamic program October 19, 2014, co-sponsored with the Camden Archives, where the group met with a full house of members and guests. (If you missed having a slice of birthday

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Natural History at Bloomsbury

All seats were filled at the members-only program June 1, 2014, at beautiful Bloomsbury, Camden, SC, with entertaining appearance of Frenchman “André Michaux,” eighteenth-century naturalist, courtesy of re-enactor Charlie Williams. Camden lawyer and author Henry Savage Jr. lived at Bloomsbury while working with

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