You can visit the Sumter Police Department to drop off letters before Dec. 17. If you include your name and addres, the department says Santa can send a letter back
The St. Stephen’s Parish Church was built in 1754. Three ships filled with eager adventurers from England and Barbados landed on the Carolina coast in 1670 at the junction of the two rivers that formed the Atlantic. They named these rivers after the Lord Proprietor who funded their venture, Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper. They named
Mary Gourdin pays laborers in the cotton fields of Pineville in the early 1930s. Persecuted Huguenots fled France for the new English colony of South Carolina in the late 1600s. Families made their way up the Santee River where they established farms and traded with the Indians. Within a generation, they became wealthy planters who
Springfield Plantation house near Pineville was built in 1818 for Joseph Palmer. It survived the Civil War but was demolished in 1939 for the Santee-Cooper Project. The land is now beneath Lake Moultrie. During the War of American Independence, most of the plantation homes along the Santee River were sacked and burned by the British