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After a brush up in the Indian country (Lord Dunmore\’s war) the leaders of Botetourt and Fincastle (western most regions of VA) came home to a country in an uproar over the injustices of England towards the colonies. Here is one of the resolutions submitted.
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Jack Parker excerpt about how the SC Troops heard the Declaration of Independence while on the warpath to Florida
In 1774, the citizens of the Rowan county around Salisbury, NC once again put their signatures to a protest against the British Crown. They protested taxation without representation and declared that the African trade be discontinued. Freedom Reigns!
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The Pittsylvania Resolves come from the Danville, Chatham area of Virginia. These resolves were yet another in a series of statements across the colonies in support of the patriots in Boston. Pledging their lives and money to the cause of Liberty, they sealed their intentions with their signatures. Freedom Reigns!
Resolved, that we will Continue to profess all Loyalty and attachment to our Sovereign Lord King George the Third, His Crown & Dignity, so long as he secures to us those Rights and Liberties which the principles of Our Constitution require.
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But if no pacifick measures shall be proposed or adopted…and our enemies will attempt to dragoon us out of these inestimable privileges which we are entitled to as subjects, … we declare, that we are deliberately and resolutely determined never to surrender them to any power upon earth, … we are resolved to live and die.
Historyman presents: The Fincastle Resolves, Fincastle VA, Associational Documents Read More »
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
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Justice William Henry Drayton addressed the Grand Jury of the Cheraw District at a pivotal time in the lead up to the Revolutionary War. The Grand Jury returned their resolve to defend their rights, \”at the hazard to our lives and fortunes.\” Freedom reigns!
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Camden\’s contribution to the Revolutionary War was great. The sentiments of its leaders were summed up in this salvo from the Grand Jury of the community that met in December 1774, a year and a half prior to the Declaration of Independence. Other Communities like Cheraw and Ninety Six delivered similar Resolves. Freedom Reigns!
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Mother nature and hurricanes seemed to have a say in the Revolution as well.
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Ishmael was a warrior at Camden, Kings Mountain and Guilford\’s Courthouse. He saved his Colonel and fought for Liberty\’s sake…. his and ours.
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Jerry Martin, Olympia Mills, Baseball 1950s-1960s Jerry Martin grew up around the winning sports traditions of Olympia Mills. He graduated from Olympia High school in the late 1960s. He went on to play in the major leagues and make a career out of a game that most just enjoy as a past time. Jerry started
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Treason in England was punishable by having the man’s entrails cut from his body and then his body dismembered. In order to dismember the person the extremities were often times tied by rope and pulled in opposite directions by men on horseback. The arms and legs would be pulled in four different directions until they
Sixteen dollars a week was good money for a 16 year old in the deep south in 1942. There weren’t a whole lot of opportunities for a young man in Mooresville, NC in regards to steady pay. Those who lived in the mill village were happy to have a job. In fact, the Mooresville Cotton
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The Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill, the Second Battle of Camden The 1st Maryland Continentals broke at the center of the American line just as the British began to charge up Hobkirk’s Hill on April 25, 1781. The panic that ensued along the American front caused General Nathaniel Greene to withdraw despite his superiority in numbers.
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The legend of “Red” Kelly began on the streets of Olympia, among the textile workers in Columbia, SC. As a teenager he was a cigar smoking, hard drinking fighter with a traveling boxing ring. He went from town to town with his friend, fighting all comers for cash. ““Red” was bold and tough and the
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MAJOR JAMES HALLPersonal Anecdotes by Sherry Jaco When my grandfather, Major James Hall, was a child of about seven years, his family left their home in Chesterfield County, SC—about the year 1900. His family with six children packed all their belongings into a horse-drawn wagon and left their small share-cropping farm in search of a
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HISTORY OF JACO’S CORNER August 2017 The intersection of Bluff Road and Rosewood Drive in Columbia has been known as Jaco’s Corner for over a century. The Jaco Family owned and continuously operated a business called Jaco’s Corner there on that corner. This intersection needs to be named officially by the City of Columbia because
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Corkball “You take a regular size cork like you would have in a wine bottle and wrap it in masking tape. That is how you make a cork ball.” Jake Jaco pulls from his pocket one of the cork balls used in a tournament he put on in 1993 at his family’s bar, Jaco’s Corner.
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Against a backdrop of war and political strife, Emily Dick taught Sunday School to the children of the mill villages in Columbia, SC. Her calling was not the political picket lines in front of the White House, or the smoke and cinder of the battlefields, or even as a Red Cross nurse. Her passion was