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Phifer retired at the end of the war and devoted her time to gardening, canning, weaving, and her family.

Signed: Published by order of Congress, John Hancock, president. Includes a letter from General Benjamin Lincoln and a copy of instructions from Lieut. General John Burgoyne to Lieut. Colonel Bern. Evans 15686 Journals of the Continental Congress, 177 ESTC W23797 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy annotated on verso: Hand bill from Philadelphia respecting G. Starks Battle 18 Aug. 1777.

Governor of the British Colony of South Carolina from 1692–93

The Phoenix Riot is best understood as an exaggerated example of the everyday violence that faced late nineteenth-century African Americans in South Carolina.

South Carolina’s phosphate industry was the world leader until the 1890s, when bad politics, bad luck, and bad weather brought on a rapid decline.

Photo of Frank Blair, Dave Garroway, J. Fred Muggs and Jack Lescoulie from the television program Today. The photo was issued to mark the beginning of the program's second year on the air.

The Joseph Alston historical marker on Brookgreen Drive, tells briefly about the life of Joseph Alston (1779-1816). Alston was "educated at the College of Charleston and at Princeton. He inherited The Oaks Plantation and in 1801, married Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr. Alston was a member of the S.C. House (1802-12), its speaker for 5 years, (1814-16). He is buried at The Oaks Cemetery about 2 miles west".

Hand colored photograph of Chiquola Manufacturing Co, Honea Path, S.C.; cotton field in the foreground

Photo of Joseph A. De Laine, Sr. and his family--wife, Mattie, and their children, Joseph A., Jr., Ophelia, and Brumit DeLaine--in front of a car.

(from left to right) Charles Murphy, Administrative Assistant to the President; David Bell, Special Assistant in the White House Office; Leon Keyserling; Vice Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Robert Turner, consultant on the White House staff; Edwin Nourse, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; and John Clark, member of the Council of Economic Advisers., 7/9/1949

This picture was perhaps taken at Blatt's fifty-seventh birthday party. Blatt (on the far right) is standing next to George Bell Timmerman, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1947 until 1955. Timmerman would later serve as Governor from 1955 until 1959. On the left, South Carolina First Lady Maude Byrnes stands next to Governor James F. Byrnes. At the time, these were perhaps the three most powerful men in the state of South Carolina.