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African American Churches in Saluda
Part of a Scrapbook prepared for The Edgefield County African American Heritage Commission by its Treasurer, Helayne Butler. Left: Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, at 130 Pleasant Hill Road north of Saluda, SC, was founded in 1871 by 182 former slaves that came out of Red Bank Baptist Church. Samuel T. Edwards of Red Bank assisted…
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The Story of Red Bank Baptist Church
Saluda’s Oldest House of Worship Churches have from the beginning played an important role in the history of Saluda County. This will begin a series of articles on these churches. We begin with Red Bank Baptist Church which predates the town and county by over a hundred years. In February 1784 when Red Bank Baptist…
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Saluda County and its Courthouses
Saluda County (452 square miles; 2000 pop.–19,181), created in 1895, is the only county formed by the action of a South Carolina Constitutional Convention. The area had been first a part of the royal colony, then of Ninety Six District (1769-1785), of Edgefield County (1785-1800), of Edgefield District (1800-1868) and from 1868 to 1895, of …
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Saluda County’s WWII Dead
All gave some; some gave all… WILLIAM M. ABLE JEFFERSON C. ANDERSON GEORGE P. BERRY MARTIN L. BERRY LEON BOATWRIGHT GEORGE W. CHAPMAN ROBERT E. CHANEY ROBERT C. CLOER JOHNNIE M. MCDANIEL JOHN A. DAVIS RICHARD F. DORN STEVEN DUNCAN EDWARD ENGLISH ALVIN ETHEREDGE GUY D. FALLOW ANDREW T. FORCE BEDFORD H. FORREST JAMES O….
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Saluda’s Treasure; Our “Picture Show”
The Saluda Theater From the day it opened in 1936 with a Shirley Temple movie until the day in 1981 when the last reel wound to a stop, the screen went dark, and the lights went out, the Saluda Theater has remained until this day a familiar landmark on the courthouse square. Its…
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