The Town of Florence was founded in the late 1850’s. It was at the junction of the Northeastern Railroad, the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad. The town was more likely a village and was located within Darlington County. The President of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad was William…
“The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” This quote is from the first sentence of Article III Section 1 of the United States Constitution, establishing the Judicial branch of our…
FBI Agent and Bureau Chief Melvin Horace Purvis was born on October 24, 1903, in Timmonsville, South Carolina, and is best known as the federal agent responsible for bringing several notorious criminals to justice, among them outlaws John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Adam Richetti. He graduated from the University of South Carolina…
Throughout the South 21st century Southerners are revisiting decisions made by their 19th century predecessors to erect Confederate statues and memorials in public spaces. Opinions on the future of these memorials are as varied as opinions on the cause of the Civil War. Recently the New Orleans City Council removed prominent monuments of Jefferson Davis,…