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Pendleton Farmers’ Society

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jesse C. Stribling Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0201
Scope and Contents The papers contain clippings, correspondence, enlistment papers, lists, a small notebook and a statement. The clippings relate to cotton and dairy farming, livestock shows and farmers' organizations, including the Pendleton Farmer's Society, for the period 1889-1890. The correspondence concerns the sale of cattle in 1882, the suggested organization of an "Agricultural Society" in upstate South Carolina in 1890 and the return of a Negro who "belongs" to Stribling from the Edgefield, SC, jail....
Dates: 1862-1865, 1882, 1889-1890, 1906, circa 1925, 1979, undated

Pendleton Farmers' Society Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0210
Abstract

The Pendleton Farmers' Society was organized on June 12, 1815, as the "Farmers Society of Pendleton District"; its first president was Thomas Pinckney, Jr. The Pendleton Farmers' Society's original building, the Pendleton Farmers' Hall located on the square in Pendleton, South Carolina, is considered to be the oldest farmers' hall in the United States.

Dates: 1815 - 1965
Subject
African Americans -- South Carolina. 1
Agricultural exhibitions -- South Carolina. 1
Agriculture -- History. -- South Carolina 1
Agriculture -- Societies, etc. -- United States 1
Dairy farming -- South Carolina. 1