ABOUT KERSHAW COUNTY

KERSHAW COUNTY COVERS 732 SQUARE MILES

EARLIEST SETTLERS CAME TO FREDERICKSBURG IN 1733.

CALLED PINE TREE HILL ABOUT 1750

CHANGED NAME TO TOWN OF CAMDEN. 

OLD CAMDEN DISTRICT BECAME KERSHAW COUNTY IN 1791

 AREAS OF KERSHAW COUNTY AREA;

CAMDEN, BETHUNE, BUFFALO, CASSATT, DEKALB,

ELGIN (BLANEY), LUGOFF, MT. PISGAH, AND WESTVILLE.

CEMETERIES:

QUAKER CEMETERY  (1759)

CEDARS CEMETERY  (1868)

FOREST LAWN  (1959)

NUMEROUS CHURCHES IN THE AREA

PRIVATE FAMILY GRAVESITES

GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES…….

KERSHAW COUNTY COURTHOUSE:

EARLY RECORDS OF LAND DEEDS,

WILLS AND MARRIAGES

CAMDEN ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM:

RECOGNIZED GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS ON THE AREA:

D. A. R. COLLECTION

17^TH CENTURY COLONIAL DAMES COLLECTION

GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIALS

PERIODICALS

FILES OF FAMILIES AND SUBJECTS OF INTEREST

MAPS

MICROFILM OF NEWSPAPERS IN CAMDEN, CENSUS’,

EARLY LAND PLATS, ETC.

BOOKS

ABOUT LANCASTER COUNTY

LANCASTER COUNTY COVERS 551 SQUARE MILES.

THE ANCESTORS IN THE AREA COME PRIMARILY

 FROM LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

BIRTHPLACE OF ANDREW JACKSON

ANDREW JACKSON STATE PARK

THE EARLIEST SETTLERS CAME ABOUT 1750.

THE AREAS OF LANCASTER AREA:

ANTIOCH, CHARLESBORO, HEATH SPRINGS,

INDIANLAND, KERSHAW, PLEASANT HILL, AND THE WAXHAWS.

CEMETERIES:

WEST SIDE CEMETERY

NUMEROUS CHURCHES IN THE AREA

PRIVATE FAMILY GRAVESITES

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