The Edgefield Community Development Association along with our special sponsor, Bluegrass Material’s Edgefield Quarry, invites everyone to our Downtown Drive-in movie night on the Square in historic Edgefield on Saturday July 20, 2013. Bring your family, your neighbors, and your friends and gather around the Edgefield Square for the YabbaDabba fun filled showing of “The […]
– By Jamie Turner – Neighbors helping neighbors in the fight against cancer; ultimately, that’s what the Savannah River Cancer Foundation does. What is little known is that that Aiken-based foundation also serves cancer patients in Edgefield County. “We actually serve four South Carolina counties: Aiken, Edgefield, Barnwell and Allendale,” said Jamie Turner, the executive […]
On July 13th, during the Living History Saturday, a mock wedding was held on the Edgefield Courthouse steps. Set in 1862, Justin Guy was one of the many young men heading off to fight in the War Between the States, but before he left, he wanted to marry his sweetheart, Tonya Browder. As the ceremony […]
An Update on the Bills We’ve Followed – By Tiffani Ireland – With the end of the 2012-2013 SC Legislative session, The Advertiser looks back at three bills we have followed closely during this term. The first, S308, is a bill that was introduced to the Senate seeking to extend the rights of concealed weapons […]
The wrought iron archway over the Mount of Olives Cemetery in Johnston, S.C., has disappeared. A beautiful, historic cemetery, where ancestors of some of the leaders of the Town of Johnston, many among the earliest settlers, no longer has the entry insignia, wrought iron with gold lettering . This loss was noted by one of […]
Sonny Seawright, Chairman of the Edgefield Heritage Jubilee Festival, set for Saturday, September 28, 2013, is announcing the plans for the coming festival. The Saturday festival will be 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. And, unlike the festivals of the past decade, the 2013 festival is being held on the Square in Downtown Edgefield. Seawright made […]
The Corps of Engineers opened the spillways for testing at Lake Thurmond Dam Thursday afternoon, July, 11. A sizable crowd, estimated to be in the thousands, was on hand to see the event. The test of the Thurmond Dam spillways followed the opening of the upstream reservoir spillways at Lake Russell and Lake Hartwell. All […]
– By Anne Sawyer – The power went out for some on Martintown Road this morning, Thursday, July 11, before five a.m., which stirred one family in the Merriwether neighborhood to suspect that a tree had fallen as many have done so with the heavy rains. Indeed, a tree had fallen across the road and hit […]
Two from Edgefield County participated in the much-written-about and much-talked-about reenactment of the Civil War Battle at Gettysburg which took place over a 3-day period, the weekend of June 27-30. Rob Keck and his son-in-law Curtis Wright were among those who came together with10,000, in all, representing both sides of the action in that memorable […]
Mike Harling and his father Jack Harling are pictured at Cut and Shoot City which is 20 miles north of Houston, Texas, where Mike lives and where Jack and Margaret Harling enjoyed visiting their son from June 25-July1. A few other highlights that Jack mentions were the Texas Gun Show and hearing the preaching of […]