Midlands

(July 12, 1780). After the British capture of Charleston in May 1780, many Whigs took protection and withdrew to their…

(Barnwell County; 2020 pop. 2,912). Williston, located on U.S. Highway 78 in Barnwell County, is named for early settlers, the…

Architect. Wilson was born on November 20, 1864, in Hartsville to Dr. Furman Edwards Wilson and Jane Lide Coker. He…

In Columbia, she attended Booker T. Washington in grade school and in 1933, she earned her teaching credentials from Allen University. After graduation, she taught mostly in rural South Carolina schools until 1971

Industry arrived in earnest at the end of the nineteenth century. Winnsboro merchants financed various industries, including the Fairfield Cotton Mills in 1896. Later renamed the Winnsboro Cotton Mills, this plant became an economic mainstay of the town throughout the twentieth century.

In 1891 the General Assembly passed an act creating “The Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina for the education of white girls.” Support came in the form of scholarships; each county was granted two. The act’s intent proclaimed that the college be “good enough for the richest and cheap enough for the poorest.”

WIS Radio and Television stations in Columbia played an influential role in the development of South Carolina’s media as a…

Woodard’s case gained national recognition as one of several incidents of racial discrimination against black veterans returning from service after World War II.

Scientist, educator, college president. Born in Carlisle, England, on May 30, 1828, James Woodrow, son of Reverend Thomas Woodrow and…

Poet, novelist, memoirist. The exact year of Woolsey’s birth is not known–estimates vary from 1895 to 1900–but what is certain…

Journalist, author. Workman was born on August 10, 1914, in Greenwood, the son of William D. Workman and Vivian Watkins.…

Human relations activist. Born in Marion on March 12, 1902, Wright was the first child of the banker Samuel Wilkins…

Educator. Wright was born in Talbotton, Georgia, on April 3, 1872, the seventh of twenty-one children born to the African…

Not only did Wylie bring new ideas into the medical community, by the mid1890s he had become interested in engineering and the process of converting water into electricity. Wylie partnered with James Buchanan Duke to create Duke Power Company, now Duke Energy Corporation.

In the late nineteenth century, Yorkville experienced the same forces of industrialization as the rest of York County and the southern Piedmont. Cheap labor combined with low tax rates encouraged a cotton mill boom, and many poor farmers came to town in search of work.

Industrial development in the late nineteenth century dramatically changed York County. Rock Hill was home to the first steam-driven cotton mill in South Carolina, the Rock Hill Cotton Factory, which began operation in 1880.

Young’s career followed the pattern of many suffragists. After active participation in Baptist missionary societies, she joined the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886. Suffrage appealed as an avenue to temperance goals.