by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
The Price House, circa 1830, is Camden’s last remaining example of a combination store-residence. Named after Susan Price, an African American who purchased the building in the early 1900s, the structure is typical of the Charleston-style architecture used by...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Opened in 2011, the Ronald E. McNair Life History Center is a museum that pays tribute to the life of Dr. McNair, a Lake City-born astronaut and physicist who died in the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion. Through moving photography and artifacts, the museum...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
The Hamburg Massacre, which occurred nearby on July 8, 1876, was one of the most notable incidents of racial and political violence in S.C. during Reconstruction. White Democrats across the state organized “rifle clubs” to intimidate Republicans during the...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
This church, one of the first black Baptist churches in America, grew out of regular worship services held as early as the 1750s at Silver Bluff, the plantation of Indian trader George Galphin. At first a non-denominational congregation with both white and black...
by Gene Crawford | May 16, 2024
This monument illustrates the story of African Americans in South Carolina from the 16th century to the present. Among the 12 scenes carved into the monument are images of an enslaved family on the auction block, freedmen celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation,...
