South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston
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Land abounded in the new Carolina colony. The challenge lay in finding a money-making crop and a labor force to produce it.
The Lords Proprietors who funded the colony directed the colonists to experiment in order to determine which crops would ultimately bring profits to their investment. To increase the labor supply, the proprietors promised European indentured servants the opportunity to own land and guaranteed each planter “absolute power and authority of his negro slaves.” Almost as soon as they arrived, the colonists and their workers turned their hands and hoes to the back-breaking task of clearing land and planting.
(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Land abounded in the new Carolina colony. The challenge lay in finding a money-making crop and a labor force to produce it.
The Lords Proprietors who funded the colony directed the colonists to experiment in order to determine which crops would ultimately bring profits to their investment. To increase the labor supply, the proprietors promised European indentured servants the opportunity to own land and guaranteed each planter “absolute power and authority of his negro slaves.” Almost as soon as they arrived, the colonists and their workers turned their hands and hoes to the back-breaking task of clearing land and planting.
(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
On the morning of April 7, 1911, the nearby Pancoast mine here in Throop was the scene of a disastrous fire. Seventy-two miners died by suffocation, and a government rescue worker also was killed. This tragedy soon led to the enactment, on June 15, of state legislation requiring that all interior buildings at coal mines be constructed of incombustible materials.
National Historic
The Robbery
On June 7, 1904, an outlaw named Harvey Logan attempted one of the west's last train robberies near here. Also known as Kid Curry, Logan was a member of Butch Cassidy's notorious "Hole in the Wall" gang.
In honor and memory
Set up for the amusement park at the Swiss National Exhibition of 1896 in Geneva. 
Thomas McMurtry logged over 11,000 hours of flying time since earning his pilot's wings in 1958. A graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School, he flew the U-2, X-246, F-8A, AD-1, YF-12C, F-104, F-15 and NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Kirche und Kloster entstanden ab 1269. 
On this site was located
"The National Institute of Health speaks the universal language of humanitarianism. It has been devoted throughout its long and distinguished history to furthering the health of all mankind....In dedicating this Institute, I dedicate it to the underlying philosophy of public health, to the conservation of life, to the wise use of the vital resources of our nation."
Signer of the Declaration
