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After the passage of the bill, Sumter County residents cleared the land to form the park. [26] During the 1920s, Koonce sculpted statues of the soldiers and Seminoles involved in the battle, ordered a bronze statue to portray Dade, built the gazebo, and constructed the monuments indicating where the officers fell.
Greenwood County Courthouse, Greenwood, South Carolina. Anderson: Anderson County Confederate Memorial, "Our Confederate Dead," dedicated in 1902. [11] The inscription reads: "The world shall yet decide, in truth's clear, far-off light, that the soldiers who wore the gray, and died with Lee, were in the right." [12]
Statue of Thomas Sumter on the Sumter County Courthouse lawn in Sumter. Sumter County was created from Clarendon, Claremont and Salem Counties as Sumter District in 1798, named after General Thomas Sumter, [6] and became effective in 1800. [7]
Sumter died on June 1, 1832, at his slave plantation "South Mount", which was located near Stateburg, South Carolina, at the age of 97. Sumter was the last surviving American general of the Revolutionary War. [19] He is buried at the Thomas Sumter Memorial Park in Sumter County, South Carolina. [1]
The statue was accidentally badly damaged and removed in 1940 at which time a cross was placed atop the monument. [44] Bibb County Confederate Memorial: Macon, Cotton Avenue & 2nd Street (formerly located beside the county courthouse) Muldoon Monument Company, fabricator Artope & Whitt, contractor Carrara marble, Stone Mountain granite
In 1813 and 1814 the land was deeded to two members of the Singleton family, who owned many plantations in Sumter County. [7] The best remembered Singleton today, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, was First Lady of the United States. Sumter County donated 1,000 acres (4 km 2) for the park, which opened to the public in 1936. Many buildings still in ...
Location of Sumter County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sumter County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Sumter County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude ...
These statues stand 10 feet 6 inches (3.20 m) tall atop an octagonal pedestal that rises 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m). [5] The monument lies at the center of a large circular plaza with a diameter of 56.5 feet (17.2 m). [5] The monument features several inscriptions on the pedestal. On the front is inscribed: [5] TO THE CONFEDERATE DEFENDERS OF ...