Columbia SC

The South Carolina State House in Columbia

South Carolina’s capital building.  This building is notable for a couple of things.  Union General Sherman sacked Columbia near the end of the Civil War.  The building shows the damage from Union cannons that stood over across the river and lobbed cannonballs at the building.  Essentially vandalism.  The other notable is the flag that flies […]

A look at the State Archives

The South Carolina Geneology Society Workshop took place at the State Archives.  Here are some pics of it.  The big document that one of the staff is holding up for me is the original of the Ordinance of Cessasion of the Confederate States of America (signed for South Carolina by J.S.Sims).  The room the original […]


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