Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
The Juneteenth holiday, one of the oldest Emancipation Day celebrations in the United States, commemorates the events of June 18 and 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, took possession of the state and...
Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Freedmen’s Bureau Rations Lists (Register of Destitutes) Charleston District, Moncks Corner Sub-District Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M869, Reel...
Apr 16, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, Uncategorized
Year two would see many positive changes for the Behind the Big House Tour. One such change was adding school children, so on Thursday morning, April 11 local school groups were scheduled to visit the Hugh Craft House and slave dwelling. This was also an improvement...
Apr 12, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Gwine to de field, Hopkinson’s Plantation, Edisto Island, S.C. Creator(s): Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer Date Created/Published: [1862] Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-11370 (digital file from original item, front) Rights...
Mar 19, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Group of old folks at home, “Old Fort” plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C. / Photographed by Hubbard & Mix, Beaufort, S.O. [i.e. S.C.] Creator(s): Hubbard & Mix, photographer Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870] Medium: 1...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Nursery at Elliott’s, Hilton Head, S.C. / photographed and for sale by H.P. Moore, Concord, N.H. Creator(s): Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer Date Created/Published: [1862 or 1863?] Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ;...
Feb 28, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
So rarely does a record from Reconstruction actually connect freed people to a former slaveholder. When we find records like this we are so excited. We are very excited today, because we found another! This record is a part of the “Pre-Bureau” records for...
Apr 4, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) has been awarded a “Save America’s Treasures” grant from the National Park Service. The grant will fund a re-analysis of a collection of artifacts excavated at Yaughan and Curriboo...
