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Dozier was one of six of its members to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for “Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty” in action near Montbrehain, France, October 8, 1918.

Immensely popular with her students, she was named South Carolina Teacher of the Year in 1985. Later that same year she received the National Teacher of the Year Award from President Ronald Reagan.

Robinson’s specialty was “chewing the root” in court, a practice designed to protect criminal defendants from guilty verdicts or harsh sentences.

President of Wofford College, Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder (on the left), is pictured with W.D. Sullivan of Tumbling Shoals, South Carolina. Mr. Sullivan was the only remaining survivor of the freshman class of 1854, and he attended the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the college's opening. That celebration took place October 18th and 19th, 1929.

Dr. George Robert Lunz, Jr. sits with his cousin, Ethel Trenholm Seabrook (Nepveux), outside of his home in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Lunz (1909-1969) was a marine biologist and was honored in 1936 with having a new species of marine crustacea named for him, Pinninza lunzi. He built a special laboratory at the Charleston Museum and served as the director of the S.C. Wildlife Resources Department (DNR) Commercial Fisheries Division and Bear's Bluff. He was the son of George R. Lunz and Minnie Whilden Lofton Lunz of McClellanville. Robert Jr., was married to Elsie Melchers and they had a daughter named, Betsy.

Plate 6 of Birds of America by John James Audubon depicting Wild Turkey.

Confederate "David"-type torpedo boat Upper: Pen and ink drawing, prepared during the 1960s, depicting the boat's outboard profile with her spar torpedo deployed. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #: NH 95242 Lower: Pen and ink drawing of the boat's internal arrangement; courtesy of Dr. William J. Morgan - U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #: NH 59420 Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-ag/david.htm

As the seat of vast plantation holdings in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Drayton Hall was the home of scores of African Americans who lived and worked there as slaves and later as free men, including the Bowens family, whose ancestors probably arrived as slaves from Barbados with the Draytons.

He devoted most of his energy while governor toward the establishment of South Carolina College in Columbia to advance public learning and to help unify the state. Following his term as governor, he again served as warden of Charleston and was one of its representatives in the Senate until 1808, when he again won election as governor.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Drayton held the rank of commander. Of the navy’s fifteen hundred officers, one-quarter left to serve with the South. But Drayton did not and chose instead the cause of Union.

He won a seat in the Provincial Congress in January 1775 and soon after sat on all important revolutionary committees. Drayton used his extensive powers to lead raids against the city’s royal post office and armories, thereby obtaining both crucial information regarding the intentions of the British Ministry and arms for the patriot forces.

Dreher High School students Susan Copenhaver and Jean Hoefer comment on winning the National Forensic League Debate. They describe their problems on preparing for the debate, their reaction to winning, and their future plans. Jean Hoefer would go on to become Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal. Chief Justice Toal is a lawyer who served in South Carolina’s House of Representatives before serving as the first woman on the Supreme Court of South Carolina. She spent 27 years on the South Carolina Supreme Court, 15 as Chief Justice, before retiring in 2015.

Drovers contributed to the prosperity of the districts through which they passed, as taverns, stations, and farms provided feed, pens, and accommodations.