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Wappaoola Plantation is located in Berkeley County, South Carolina, at Molly Branch, a western branch of the Cooper River. The house was built in 1806 by Reverend Milward Pogson. The plantation takes its name from a creek nearby that made it a rich…

The collection includes numerous letters between James Ladson Gibbes and his father, John Gibbes, while he was studying at Princeton. Other letters include a note dated 1865 from Alex Hamilton Jr of New York addressed to Mr. Gibbes about supporting…

Monthly returns of troops in Charles Harden's company at Fort Lyttleton, February 4, 1777. Two undated items: notes about exercising the troops and new recruits

Description of Simmons' gender reassignment surgery at John Hopkins University and her new name of Dawn Pepita Langley Hall.

One holograph bound volume containing Wells's recollections of a trip she made from Charleston, S.C. to London, via New York in 1778. She and her fellow passengers were largely Loyalists fleeing the colonies for England. Her ship was captured in July…

Strawberry Chapel in Cordesville was originally a parochial chapel of ease built in 1725 to accomodate the townspeople of Childsbury who lived too far away from the original parish church, Biggin Church. A parochial church is given the rites of a…

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Back of photograph: "(c) Henry P. Staats / State St. / Chas." 18 State Street, the Nathan Hart House, was owned for investment purposes by the same family from 1815-1905. The two-story masonry building reflects the changing uses and status of the…

Collection consists of a promissory note of Gabriel Manigault to Robert Williams, showing payments made from 1777 to 1788, witnessed by William Banbury. Five letters written to Gabriel Manigault from Robert Williams and J. Vandeuvre (written in…