Beech Island Historical Society
The society’s 16th Annual Historic Beech Island Tour to be held Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. will feature 13 historic and interesting places to visit. Among them will be the beautifully restored Bowers-Galphin home of Dr. Charles G. Larke. Built in 1833 by plantation owner David Bowers and completed by his son Benjamin, […]
The society’s 15th Annual Historic Beech Island Tour to be held Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. will feature 14 historic and unusual places to visit. Among them will be Carolina Country Farms, a real working farm complete with a vast array of animals — goats, sheep, Emus, horses, chickens, turkeys, guineas, pigs, ducks, […]
Beech Island Historical Society Meeting The Beech Island Historical Society will meet Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at 7:30PM at the society’s History & Visitors Center located at 144 Old Jackson Highway in Beech Island, SC. Historian George McDaniel will speak on his new book, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People. McDaniel served as […]
On Tuesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the History & Visitors Center, author and historian George McDaniel will speak to the society on his new book, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and its People. McDaniel’s book is the first book to focus on a site’s recent history using interviews with descendants, architects, historians, preservationists, […]
You are cordially invited to attend a book signing for Beth Self Francis, author of Of Planters and Patriots: The Hammonds of Old Edgefield District on Sunday, March 26 from 3-5 p.m. at the Charles Hammond House at 908 Martintown Road in North Augusta. There will be a brief presentation by the author followed by […]
On March 7, Beech Island Historical Society member George Hammond presented President Jackie Bartley a $500 donation to the Beech Island Historical Society from his organization, the Society of Colonial Wars in Georgia. It will be used to improve the Revolutionary War Battle Site at Silver Bluff.
At our meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m., our speaker will be Ren “Warrior Wolf” Herdman, a tribal member of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation, a 501c3 educational tribe located in the Appalachian region of Virginia and a descendant of Jesse Brock, a Cherokee who fought on behalf of the Patriots in the Revolutionary […]
Old Pictures of Aiken To Be Shown at March Meeting Our last meeting until Fall will be held on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the Beech Island Historical Society’s History & Visitors Center at 144 Old Jackson Highway in Beech Island, SC. The speaker will be Allen Riddick, Aiken resident and President […]
The second edition of Bill and Bea Baab’s Augusta on Glass, a history of Augusta, Georgia soda water manufacturers, patent medicine men, area potters, beer brewers and more, is available from Amazon at $40 (free shipping). To order the book, go online to Amazon.com and search under books for Augusta on Glass and the information […]
This is the latest update on moving forward on the cemetery land acquisition from the State of South Carolina from Treasurer Turner Simkins. He said the Hammond Cemetery Association, Inc. has applied to the IRS for nonprofit status and are waiting for approval. They were about to have everything completed and begin final budgeting and […]
The Beech Island Country Store was completed in time for the Spring 2019 tour and everyone who stopped by to take a look loved it. The old Coke machine, counter, signs, display case, and newly built shelves full of old store items nearly filled up the inside. Over the summer of 2019 we moved in […]