Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1882-08-10
For the Advertiser.
A LETTER FROM MIR. KEESE.
The Factory Sites. An Ancient Church
and Ancient Tombs. Old Pendietoh.
Her Stock Farms.
r.,cp1,y. oooyEE CouxrY, S. c.,

FA1EpLAy, OooSEE County, S. C.,
August, 1882.
Hatton's Shoals, on Tugaloo River, and
portman's Shoals, on the Seneca are op-
posite to each other and not lar apart.
These noble streams, running down rom
the mountains, seem here to tumble over
ihe same extensive vein OF granite, n
viting capital and skill to come to the cot
ion fields and to the forests aboundlnG IN
hard wood suitable for the manufacture OF
agricultural implements. Some distance
below, the Savannah River, at James
Edward Calhoun's residence, struggles,
and al times toys with another broad
ledge of rocks IN such manner as TO make
q long line of humming factories quite
easy of construction and operation at an
,nconsiderable expenditure of hard cash.
Open the Savannah River for steamboat
navigation from Augusta to The confiu-
cnce OF the Tugaloo and the Seneca; and
also open the latter streams to the cross
;ns. of the Air Line Railroad, and you
make all tha immense water power avail
ab!e-nol only at the points above men
toned, but also al many other places OF
those rivers AMI their tributaries. Her
,h.ro "a nn;they malaria in The summer no
ice in the winter TO interfere with work Il
the mills Our future ls certainly YER
bright, and every noble dream is realize
when backed by noble exertions.
It might he suggested that the fertl'
valleys along those streams wonld inrnis
: bread ml bqsier ior The manuacturin
: cities: an; the adjacent hilIs would be d
s.r:.f!a sites ior the spruce villas oi Il
wea!thy and the reiine'I-retreais inr tt
weary brsns and pale faces.
Il II i..i.on'a rnb!c hard ":Si:.hed o
lj,:r!lt.s long Deserted Shrine, hf
much mora W. 7hon!.l he touched will'
- i.elra {! sa,inesz on seeing Ih- { nf.'ll
:, = Sanctuary abandoned ana falllng 10 de'
. -wh;:hcr the man ol God cometh
y more save when tic surrounding atllIn
n !. broken by funeral wall. Such ls
condition cf The Hopewell Church, aht
,wo rniIes west of PendIeton, $. c. II
known throughout Ibis region OF co'tn
-. the "Old Stone Church. and II
bull, about a hundred years ago by
" presbvterians. The adjacent Cen:e'er!
ee large, ans! it contains Z grea; variety
monuments. On entering the gate tn
20. not long since, saw the following lnsc
tion on The first head stone to the III
Io .eienI Andrew pickens was born
September, 1879, and died lth Aug
-. 1917. He was a Christian, Patriot
Soldier. His character and actions arr
corporated with the history OF his coun
H. Filial affection ana resrec: raised
stone 10 his memory" Next 10 this g
IN, there is a marble slab over the remalI
ow. Col Andrew Pickens; born 18th Nov
ma, her, 1910, died 9th June, 1898. tie
. Lieutenant Colonel in the [, 5
oft. Army during The war OF 1872. Byl
rlo who fell in duel with Ex-Governor
T Perry, fifty years ago. was buried
A.. His only monument is couple OF
'l trees, The burial party, having lost
u way, Bynum was buried at the mld'
Ma hour. Mrs. Mary Pike, native OF
tor land, who resides near the "old
Church" and with whom convt
pied says she remembers the clrcumst
this connected with this melancholy occa'
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