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From: "Susan Lail" <>
Subject: Re: [SCAnderson] Old Anderson County CourtHouse
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:36:59 -0400
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Joy,

Thank you for such a detailed history of the courthouse. It is exactly what
I was looking for.
I don't know about Chuck, but this is what I needed.

Too bad the officials at the courthouse today know nothing of it, no one at
the Library does either, at least the 3 people I have talked to.

Thank you again,
Susan Lail
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy King" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SCAnderson] Old Anderson County CourtHouse


> Frank A. Dickson, JOURNEYS INTO THE PAST - THE ANDERSON REGION'S HERITAGE
> (No place: privately printed, sponsored by the Anderson County
Bicentennial
> Committee, 1975), "Anderson County Courthouses" 43-49.
>
> . . . James HARRISON, Robert B. NORRIS, Matthew GAMBRELL, John C. GRIFFIN,
> and William SHERARD were appointed commissioners for the Anderson District
> and were "authorized" to select and purchase a tract of land of not less
> than 100 nor more than 400 acres, as nearly central as expedient, upon
which
> they shall lay our a village and determine the site of the public
> buildings."
>
> . . . Book S, pages 172-173, in the clerk of court's office at the
> courthouse contains the report that GAMBRELL submitted on March 31, 1827:
> "Agreeable to the direction of the commissioners appointed at the last
> session of the legislature of the state of South Carolina to select a site
> for the public buildings in Anderson County, I have measured the land and
I
> find that Manning POOLE has sixty-four acres, Hezekiah RICE has twenty-six
> and three-fourths acres, William MAGEE twenty-three and one-half acres and
> Zadoc CHAMBLEE ten acres, each parcel being represented in the above
plat."
>
> The plat, which is on record at the courthouse, shows approximately 124
> acres, but 130 acres were actually purchased. The land brought a price of
> $4.62½ per acre. The immediate sale of fifty lots netted $8,145.
>
> The commissioners debated over two locations as the site of the
courthouse -
> one about where ORR Mill stands, and the second at Whitehall near the
> present Pruitt Shopping Center. While traveling between these places, they
> stopped at French Store, midway between the two points, and entered a
tavern
> where the Masonic Temple is situated on East Benson. Street.
>
> As the argument continued over the selection of a site, Commissioner
NORRIS
> picked up a heavy walking stick and walked to a large walnut tree and few
> yards away. He stabbed the stick into the ground and exclaimed, "Here
shall
> be the southeast corner of the courthouse. He who says no has me to whip."
> None of Commissioner NORRIS' companions felt like challenging him, and
> GAMBRELL was assigned the task of making the survey. . . .
>
> Hurley E. Badders, editor, THE 1897 ANDERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE TIME
CAPSULE
> (Pendleton, SC: Pendleton District Historical and Recreational Commission,
> 1991), "History of 1827-1828 Courthouse, 15-20.
>
> The Story of the old Court-house at Anderson, S.C. as deposited at the
> laying of the Corner Stone of the new Court House 1897, Oct. 20.
>
> . . . It is 1827. There stands James THOMPSON, Samuel J. HAMMOND,
Alexander
> MOOREHEAD and S. GOODE, Commissioners of Public buildings for Anderson
> County, with Benjamin DURHAM, the contractor, and Bob WILSON, the father
of
> my old time friend Jeptha F. WILSON now dead. . . .
>
> Joy
>
> ---- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:06 PM
> Subject: [SCAnderson] Old Anderson County CourtHouse
>
>
> > Does anyone know the history of Anderson County Court House?
>
>
>
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