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Samuel Maner Martin Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0247
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, a memorial, negatives, photographs, and a speech that span the period 1899-1984. The correspondence, which dates from 1905-1906, is mainly from Martin to his father and his brother Benjamin, describing the weather, his garden, family matters, and a trip to Hampton County to hunt and oversee some of the family's financial interests (farm rentals and timber-cutting contracts) there. One letter is from Martin's half-brother Luther Bostick Martin, who...
Dates: 1899-1984, undated

Town of Calhoun, South Carolina Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0279
Abstract W.J. Megginson conducted a series of interviews with 17 residents of Calhoun, SC in 1988 and 1989 as part of research for a lecture entitled Calhoun, South Carolina: the Founding of the Town, its Early Years, and Its Relationship to Clemson Agricultural College, 1890-1910. The interviews focus on everyday life in the small town that developed around an upcountry South Carolina train depot in the early 1890's and for over 50 years was known as Calhoun before...
Dates: 1988-1989