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Showing posts with label Union County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Union County. Show all posts
Friday, September 5, 2025

Craftsman has a window to the history of a home where South Carolina's governor fled to avoid Yankees. Robert Schmitt is working on its windows while the Dawkins House in Union awaits more funding for restoration, campus use

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Robert Schmitt at work on windows and sashes (provided photo), McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture rendering of completed alumni house; how t...
Friday, February 28, 2025

S. Carolina's governor fled to this house in Union as Sherman's men arrived. Here's the latest on efforts (and a donation) to repair building. Will staircase return?

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Stabilization of ceiling, exterior, crawl space (Preservation South Carolina); Gov. Andrew Magrath An ambitious project restoring a weathere...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

South Carolina community gets into the game by helping to save Civil War home in Union, see that unbeaten streak of all-black high school is recognized

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The Dawkins House exterior, interior (Preservation SC) and a news clipping on Sims High streak After 40-plus years working in Charlotte, N.C...
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Fascinated by the Civil War since childhood, I used to terrorize my children by dragging them to battlefields across the South. I am a writer, editor and Web producer.
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