BOOK NOTES:  Some books which might be of general interest to students of the "Early Republic" period -- If you find any worth purchasing after following one of these links, a portion will go to support of this web site: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough a "story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work." The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs.  From book description: "For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving.  But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.

United States Geography in the Early Republic - SOUTH CAROLINA

South Carolina

General: For towns and cities of SC as it existed around 1830 (far fewer counties, etc.) see the map opposite p8 in Freeling, Prelude to Civil War.

Towns and Cities of South Carolina

Abbevile

Aikin

Allendale

Anderson

Andrews

Arcadia

Ariail

Baldwin Mills

Bamberg

Barnwell

Batesburg

Bath

Beaufort

Belton

Belton Mills

Bennettsville

Bishopville

Blacksburg

Blackville

Branchville

Buffalo

Calhoun Falls

Camden

Cayce

Cedar Springs

Charleston

Possessing one of the best harbors on the east coast; perhaps the best in the deep south. In antebellum days it was in some ways a remarkably cosmopolitan city, with flourishing French speaking and Jewish communities, and the first theater in the United States.

Charleston was also the cultural and commercial center of South Carolina, a state perhaps more attached to the institution of slavery, and in 1860 more determined to break with the union, than any other state.

Charleston was the summer gathering place of all the large plantation owners of coastal South Carolina; where they came to escape the deadly "miasmic air" (in reality, malaria mosquitoes were the main threat) of the swampy coastal plane. It was dominated by the views of such men. It alone, tried a showdown with the federal government, in 1832, when John C. Calhoun claimed the doctrine that a state could, after a certain democratic procedure, declare a federal law (the tariff in particular) to be null - hence the nullification crisis.

Columbia

Chosen as capitol of the state in 1786; located very near the center, on a hill, overlooking the Congaree, at the point where the Broad and Saluda rivers flow into the Congaree. Home of South Carolina College, where Thomas Cooper held sway from 1820-34.

A description circa 1815 and later, when James Henry Hammond was growing up there. "Rustic as it was, with a population of scarcely a thousand, the town was laid out on a monumental scale. Boulevards more than a hundred feet wide marked off four-acre blocks dotted with wooden houses regularly trimmed in yellow and grey. ... The statehouse, atop a three-hundred-foot hill covered with oaks, dominated the town. Just across the street lay the brick buildings of the college."

Eau Claire

Edgefield

Edisto Island

Elloree

Enoree

Estill

Eureka Mills

Fairfax

Florence

Forest acres

Fort Mill

Fountain Inn

Gaffney

Georgetown

Glendale

Gluck

Goldville (Joanna)

Graniteville

Great Falls

Greenville

Greenwood

Greer

Hamburg

Across the Savannah from Augusta, GA. Terminus of the Hamburg-Charleston Railroad; one of the first in the nation. It does not appear on my map; was probably renamed "North Augusta".

Hampton

Hartsville

Hiltonhead

Holly Hill

Honea Path

Industrial Mills inman

Isle of Palms

Iva

Jamestown

Joanna

Johns Island

Johnston

Jonesville

Kershaw

Kngstree

Lake City

Lancaster

Lancaster Mills

Landrum

Langley

Latta

Laurens

Leesville

Lexington

Liberty

Lockhart

Loris

Lydia Mills

Lyman

Manning

Marietta

Marion

McColl

McCormick

Monarch Mills

Moncks Corner

Mount Pleasant

Mullins

Myrtle Beach

Newberry

Newry

Ninety Six

North Augusta

Formerly Hamburg?

North Charleston

Orangeburg

Orr

Pacolet Mills

Pageland

Pawleys Island

Pelzer

Pendleton

About the middle of what was, around 1830, Pendleton County, or at the intersection of the 3 counties into which it was split, Oconee, Anderson, and Pickens.

Home of the Pendleton Messenger, publisher, in 7/26/31, of John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Address.

Pickens

Pickens Mill

Piedmont

Ridgeland

Rock Hill

Saint Andrews

Saing George

Saint Matthews

Saint Stephen

Saluda

Seneca

Simpsonville

Slater

Spartanburg

Startex

Summerton

Summerville

Sumter

Taylors

Timmonsville

Travelers Rest

Union

Wadmalaw Island

Walhalla

Walterboro

Ware SHoals

Warrenville

Wattsville

West COlumbia

Westminster

Whitmire

Whitney

Williamston

Winnsboro

Winnsboro Mills

Woodruff

York

Counties of South Carolina

Abbeville

Aiken

Allendale

Anderson

Modern - part of old Pendleton.

Bamberg

Barnwell

Beaufort

Berkeley

Calhoun

Charleston

Cherokee

Chester

Chesterfield

Clarendon

Colleton

Darlington

Dillon

Dorchester

Edgefield

Fairfield

Florence

Georgetown

Greenville

Greenwood

Hampton

Horry

Jasper

Kershar

Lancaster

Laurens

Lee

Lexinigton

Marion

Marlboro

McCormick

Newberry

In the "upcountry". Occupies about 30 miles of the land between the Enoree (tributary) and Broad Rivers, and the Saluda. Home of Mount Bethel Academy.

Oconee

Modern - part of old Pendleton.

Orangeburg

Pendleton

Westernmost tip of SC around 1830. Seems to have been split into Oconee, Anderson, and Pickens.

Pickens

Modern - part of old Pendleton.

Richland

Saluda

Spartanburg

Sumter

Union

Williamsburg

York

Rivers, Lakes, etc. of South Carolina

Ashepoo

Ashley

Black

Broad

Congaree

Runs from the confluence of the Saluda and Broad rivers (near Columbia, the capital of SC) to the Santee. Columbia, the capital of SC, is

Cooper

Edisto

Enoree

Saluda

Santee

Savannah River

Running almost exactly northwest to southeast, it forms most of the boundary with Georgia. At the middle of this border are Augusta GA on one side, and Hamburg on the other.

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