Note From Jackie Reynolds of the Pendleton Historic Foundation:
Help Needed to Locate Info & Pictures of the Old
Houses of Pendleton
The Pendleton Historic Foundation is developing a new book on the historic houses, churches and commercial buildings in the Pendleton area to be published during Pendleton’s 225th anniversary year celebration in 2015. We plan to provide a picture of each structure or house, brief history of significant residents, physical addresses as well as GPS coordinates if possible. This will allow us to place the sites on current maps.
We currently have about 80 historic houses on our list including a number of those houses that no longer exist. We have found a good resource for pictures of many of those historic houses that are gone in a scrapbook titled “Old Homes in and around Pendleton, SC” from 1939 containing photos by Lewis Moorhead and assembled by Gaillard Hunter. This scrapbook is located in Clemson University’s Special Collections and but many of the pictures are not of the best quality.
We are making a request of the many families of Old Pendleton who may have pictures of these historic houses in their family photo collection to allow us have copies. We don’t mind if there are people in the pictures as long as the house can be seen. We are also looking for a short history or even family folklore about some of the people who lived in these houses …. Something interesting, something infamous, or even a good ghost story.
If you are willing to help us with photos or stories, please let me know. We would prefer a scanned digital copy of the photos or if you do not have access to a scanner, I would be happy to scan them and return the originals to you immediately. We would also ask that you sign a photo release to allow us to publish the picture. We have a professional writer who is willing to help us with the book when we can provide her with all of the pertinent historical data. Our target is to start this process by early next year.
If you are interested in participating in this new book project, please contact me with the information that you wish to provide. It can be a wonderful addition to Pendleton’s 225th anniversary celebration and one that will last far into the future.
Jackie Reynolds
historicfnd2@att.net
Cell: 864-650-0003
The Pendleton Historic Foundation is developing a new book on the historic houses, churches and commercial buildings in the Pendleton area to be published during Pendleton’s 225th anniversary year celebration in 2015. We plan to provide a picture of each structure or house, brief history of significant residents, physical addresses as well as GPS coordinates if possible. This will allow us to place the sites on current maps.
We currently have about 80 historic houses on our list including a number of those houses that no longer exist. We have found a good resource for pictures of many of those historic houses that are gone in a scrapbook titled “Old Homes in and around Pendleton, SC” from 1939 containing photos by Lewis Moorhead and assembled by Gaillard Hunter. This scrapbook is located in Clemson University’s Special Collections and but many of the pictures are not of the best quality.
We are making a request of the many families of Old Pendleton who may have pictures of these historic houses in their family photo collection to allow us have copies. We don’t mind if there are people in the pictures as long as the house can be seen. We are also looking for a short history or even family folklore about some of the people who lived in these houses …. Something interesting, something infamous, or even a good ghost story.
If you are willing to help us with photos or stories, please let me know. We would prefer a scanned digital copy of the photos or if you do not have access to a scanner, I would be happy to scan them and return the originals to you immediately. We would also ask that you sign a photo release to allow us to publish the picture. We have a professional writer who is willing to help us with the book when we can provide her with all of the pertinent historical data. Our target is to start this process by early next year.
If you are interested in participating in this new book project, please contact me with the information that you wish to provide. It can be a wonderful addition to Pendleton’s 225th anniversary celebration and one that will last far into the future.
Jackie Reynolds
historicfnd2@att.net
Cell: 864-650-0003
