Hidden history of Aiken County
By: Tom Mack
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781609496906
Subjects: Social life and customs; Anecdotes; Local History; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125).
Table of contents: title: Hernando de Soto Crosses the River : 1540; title: Triple Betrayal Marks Native American Residency during Colonial Period : 1663-1783; title: From Rags to Riches to Rags: Henry Shultz Follows a Dream : 1821; title: The Railroad Comes to Town : 1833; title: Most Edgefield Pottery Actually Made in What is Now Aiken County : 1836; title: Sex Scandal Rocks the State's Power Elite : 1843; title: William Gregg Builds a Factory of Granite : 1845; title: Aikenite Invents Plastic Cotton : 1846; title: County Offers Sanctuary to Nineteenth-Century Botanist : 1853; title: Two Principal Adversaries at the Battle of Aiken are "Frenemies" : 1865; title: Civil War Memoirist Calls Aiken His Home : 1865; title: Quaker Spinster Becomes Important Civil Rights Advocate : 1868; title: Croft Leaves His Stamp on Adopted Community : 1870; title: Graniteville Murder Remains Subject of Abiding Controversy : 1876; title: Massacre and Riots Mark Reconstruction Politics in County : 1876; title: The "Aiken Gamecock" Points the Way to State's Constitutional Convention : 1887; title: Aiken Launches Career of Nation's "Assistant President" : 1900; title: James U. Jackson Revisits the Dream of a Town on the River : 1906; title: Aiken Mansion Boasts Two Significant Literary Links : 1910; title: Aiken Has Ties to Titanic Tragedy : 1912; title: Aiken Retains Tangible Links to Presidential Love Triangle : 1918; title: "The Black Caruso" Gets His Start at Palmetto Park and Pond : 1932; title: Fred Astaire Makes Aiken His Winter Home : 1933; title: Abdicated King Finds Solace in Aiken : 1936; title: German P.O.W. Camp Bears Witness to Daring Escape and Brutal Murder : 1943-46; title: Aiken County Revives the Political Ambitions of Strom Thurmond : 1951; title: Residents of Ellenton Become H-Bomb's First Victims : 1952; title: Joye to Juilliard : Grand Aiken Home Has Second (and Third) Life : 1989.