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Prosperity is located at 34°12′38″N 81°32′4″W (34.210657, -81.534347). [9] The town is concentrated around the intersection of U.S. Route 76 and South Carolina Highway 391 northwest of Columbia. Lake Murray lies just to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km 2 ...
The Jacob Bedenbaugh House is an historic home located near Prosperity, Newberry County, South Carolina.It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, frame I-house.It was the home of Jacob and Sarah Bedenbaugh, an interracial couple remained together for 42 years during the late-19h and early-20th centuries.
The Prosperity Cemetery is located on McNeary Street (South Carolina Route 391) on the south side of Prosperity, South Carolina, United States. The cemetery is about 3 acres (1.2 ha) in size, with more than 1,000 marked graves dating back to its founding in 1802. The cemetery is distinctive for the fine quality of its funerary art in what is ...
I and countless activists with Americans for Prosperity-SC will continue to advocate for a flexible educational environment that supports all South Carolina students. Candace Carroll, Liberty ...
South Carolina was one of the Thirteen Colonies that first formed the United States. European exploration of the area began in April 1540 with the Hernando de Soto expedition, which unwittingly introduced diseases that decimated the local Native American population. [1] In 1663, the English Crown granted land to eight proprietors of what became ...
The history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The city grew wealthy through the export ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Newberry County, South Carolina, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [ 1]
The Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies of the British Empire. The monarch of Great Britain was represented by the Governor of South Carolina, until the colonies declared independence ...