Kershaw County Historical Society
Continuing the legacy of scholarly historical research for and about Kershaw County, South Carolina.
The Society attracted attention at its booth at the SC Book Festival in Columbia Feb. 23-24. We enjoyed our first time to be part of this popular annual event, beloved by readers and antique book-collectors. We are looking forward to next year. Plan to join us at the next annual Festival!
Ben Shreiner and Charles Baxley, manning the Historical Society’s booth at the SC Book Festival, greet one of the customers to the event, Liz Campbell, also of Kershaw County.
Our Jan.13, 2008, program at the Robert Mills Courthouse was well-attended, enjoyed by audience and panelists, and moderated by Don Terrell on the subject: Pre-Revolutionary History in Kershaw County.
Some of the finer pre-Revolutionary area homes did not differ much from the 1812 Drakeford House moved to the Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site. (1970 view)
We enjoyed our Oct. 2007 program Old Blaney to New Elgin – thanks to the Elgin Centennial Committee, our hosts. Where Blaney began — A telegraph operator sits in the Western Union window of the Seaboard train depot at Blaney (today Elgin) in the early 1900s. Thanks so much to Barbie Russ for this image of her great granduncle Elihu Meares, an early 1900s telegraph operator who traveled in the employ of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. The Blaney depot building, moved to Stephen Campbell Road, now serves as Goff Feed & Tack.
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