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Welcome to the Lake Murray Country

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podcast, your official source

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for all fantastic things to do in

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capital city Lake Murray country.

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This is where you'll find information on

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where to stay. What to do,

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places to eat, and so much

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more. To plan your next trip.

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In each episode, we will explore

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the top southern destinations of

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Columbia, Lexington, Newbury

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and Saluda to make

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to love my.

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Murray Country is a military history

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buffs dream. Our state's military

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tradition started in the Revolutionary

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War, grew in the Civil War and continues

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today. Within a short drive

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from late Murray, you can be in historic

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Columbia and explore a wide

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variety of historical sites, museums,

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monuments and more. The

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Civil War Relic Room has artifacts

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from the Civil War, Revolutionary

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War, and many other wars that were

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fought overseas by brave South

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Carolinians. Hi,

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I'm Jo Long. I am the education

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curator for a South Carolina

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military history museum. The

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South Carolina Confederate Relic

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Room and Military Museum,

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the oldest museum with the longest

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name in town.

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So for people who don't know what

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all is in the Relic Room.

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Well, we have a very

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rich collection. In

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fact, we've been a museum since 1896,

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and the ladies who began our

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place were wives

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or widows of southern soldiers

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from the 1860s, and they

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collected as much as they could from

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that war. And

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within two years, they

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saw their kids go to the Spanish-American

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War and they decided, Hey,

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this mission is bigger than just the 1860s,

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and began to collect things from

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South Carolina service people in all

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of our wars. So we

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have a great many things on display

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from the revolution through the 20th

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century. The best

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collection that exists of South Carolina

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historic flags, weapons

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and uniforms, but also homefront

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things from all eras.

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And at any one time we have our

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main gallery, which is probably

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about 80% civil War period.

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We have our Mulvaney

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Guest gallery, a smaller

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room where we do a special topic.

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Right now it's on South Carolina

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Silversmiths and Sword Smits and Gun

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Makers. It's called Plowshares

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to Swords. And then

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we have our secondary gallery

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almost as big as the main one where we do

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a special topic. And that one's

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been closed since before COVID,

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and it's going to reopen on

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Veterans Day with South Carolinians

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in Vietnam.

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That's awesome. So it sounds like it's

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not just Civil War history. It is

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a lot of history.

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No, we are the the best Civil

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War museum, in my humble

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opinion. But that's not all we

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are. That's right.

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That's exciting. So I know the original

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reliquary was in the state house, but y'all are now

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actually at another location.

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That's correct. We share the old

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Columbia Mills building with

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the South Carolina State Museum,

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two museums and one building where

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good friends with our neighbors

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here, our neighbors and colleagues. But we

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are two different museums in

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the same building.

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So two museums, the same building. I

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mean, that's a great way that you

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could get to see a lot of history just in one

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day.

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Sure. Sure. And we share the parking

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lot with yet a third museum,

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which is adventure. So

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the visitor who's interested can

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see three museums without

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getting back into the vehicle. Our

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children's museum, a general interest

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museum, and also ourselves, a

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special specialized military

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history museum.

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And going back to the Civil War, I don't

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think a lot of people may not understand how

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much South Carolina was really involved in

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that and how just there's so

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much history with it in that state alone.

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Oh, yes. Well, we're

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not simply about events in

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South Carolina because South Carolina

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soldiers went everywhere

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and were involved in everything

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and so many stories

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that people are not necessarily familiar

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with. For instance,

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we have South Carolina's only surviving

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union flag, a

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regimental flag of troops from our state

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who actually fought for the North.

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And this regiment

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was raised from among the freed slaves

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in the Buford district. Their

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intelligence officer during the summer

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of 1863 was

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Harriet Tubman. So

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we have the only Harriet Tubman associated

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artifact that I know of anyway, in

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the state of South Carolina. We

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have some of the swords, and these are

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among my favorite things. I'm a sword

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guy. We have a

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pair of the swords that Wade

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Hampton, the third, bought out

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of his own pocket to equip his

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regiment of cavalry.

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And if you go and see the big equestrian

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statue at the statehouse, you'll see

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it's a very distinctive kind of sword.

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It's not curved. It's a long straight

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blade. And you can see

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some examples here and

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read and learn more about

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him. So, yeah,

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South Carolinians were involved in every

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part of that war in the 1860s

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from the secession of our state,

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which is what kicked off the

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whole thing in the first place to

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the final surrenders, both

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the more famous one at Appomattox,

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but also the troops who had retreated

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through South Carolina would actually

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be in a second major

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surrender up in North Carolina. And

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we've got things from them as well.

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I mean, that's so amazing. That's that's just

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so much great history in there.

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So you talked about you'll have some Vietnam stuff.

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What, all kind of more modern relics do you have?

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Oh, the Vietnam exhibit is

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going to feature some great, great

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stuff. And one

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special part about that, to me, the

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roots of our museum were

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going out to veterans of

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the Confederate Army at the time who were still

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alive. And they had things

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and they had stories. And the stories came

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along with the items. And

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now it's our Vietnam veterans that our

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staff has been working with to get both

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the items and the

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stories that give meaning to

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these things, because history is really

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about people when it comes down to it

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and military history is

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about. Frightened

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people stepping up to the plate

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and facing danger and going

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through hardship and misery

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and in dealing with the

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effects of combat afterwards. And

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so they'll be very personal things

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on display. But

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just to grab a few examples from

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the Second World War, we

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have items from the USS Columbia.

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She's a light cruiser. Her

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Jack staff is part of a memorial

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a couple of blocks away at Memorial Park.

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You can see an original piece of the ship where the

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flag is flying next to her monument. But

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we have pieces of shrapnel

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from kamikaze airplanes that crashed

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into her. We have

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uniforms and items from

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the crew, personal items like a

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sailor's handkerchief. But he kept track

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on the handkerchief. How many airplanes

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has any aircraft gone? Had shot down? Cool

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things like that. Strangely

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enough, the oldest thing we have is

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in our Second World War case. Even

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though we have things from the American Revolution,

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we have a sword captured on

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Iwo Jima in 1945

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that was actually made about the year 1600.

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420 year old sword. We

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have beautiful stuff from the Spanish-American

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War. We have

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a flag from the Mexican-American

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War, the Palmetto Regiment

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that went to Mexico City. And

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they hold that flag out of retirement 50 years

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later and took it to Cuba for a second war

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for the Spanish-American War. So

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a lot of terrific stuff like that. But

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once the Vietnam exhibit

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is installed and there

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to be seen, one of the things

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we have is a full size

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military mortar that was used

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a piece of the exhibit you can already look

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at today out in the atrium is

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a about a 1/72

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scale, I believe it is diorama

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of the Battle of Firebase Ripcord.

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And that's a battle in the

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valley late in the war

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that is has really gotten short shrift

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over the years by that time

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in the war. The Army was very leery

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of reporters. And

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since this fire base was deep within

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enemy territory and accessible by

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only by Army helicopter, the

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Army just said, we're not taking any reporters out there.

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And as a result, they got no bad

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publicity. But the man

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who fought and died there didn't get a

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lot of proper recognition

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and credit either. And

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I think that in a way, our exhibit

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will help redress that. So

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when you come in to see the

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Vietnam exhibit, you'll also see

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a recreation of

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a home during the fighting

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in this city and

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get a little bit of the feel of what it was

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like to be a person living

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in a city in which a battle

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was taking place. We

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often forget in military

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history we focus on the soldiers in uniform

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and what they're doing. And and

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I appreciate that. And, you know, that's that's my

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bread and butter and my primary interest. But

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war doesn't just affect the person wearing

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the uniform. It affects

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the person, as so many people in

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Ukraine have had

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to experience recently. It affects

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the person who just happens to be in the area.

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The old saying is you might not be interested

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in war. War is interested

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in you.

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How far a drop in the Columbia is it to get

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from the Lake Murray area?

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We are very easy to find

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because we are right across

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the river and

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you know, on the main, main drag in there.

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And if you follow the signs for

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the state museum, since

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we're in the same building or the signs to

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adventure with which we share

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the parking lot or the signs to the

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Relic Room. But we're

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awfully easy to find, and

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I think we pair well with

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a visit to the state house a

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few blocks away. You can see

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the statue of Wade Hampden. Here

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you can learn about Wade Hampton and see some

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of his artifacts at the state house. You can

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see marks on the wall where union cannon

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shells hit at the

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Relic Room. You can see one of the shells dug

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up from the statehouse grounds.

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The place what Historical Society does

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a great job sharing the wonderful history

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of life with this hidden gem

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in Columbia's metro area would be

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a great stop During your Lake Murray Country

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visit. From horses to history,

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plywood has a little bit of something

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for everyone.

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Wade Dorsey I'm the reference supervisor

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at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History,

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and I'm a board member of the Blackwood

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Historical Society and Museum.

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I'm a native Georgian. I've been in South

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Carolina for 35 years

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now. So I have

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learned a little bit about this state to heart.

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Our society started about 12

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or 13 years ago in the

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living room of one

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of our members. A

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few friends discussing the need to

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preserve the history of our

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little community in our area because

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of the development that was really

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coming along pretty, pretty strong. And

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we needed to to do that while people still

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remembered what it was like before. So

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the society was formed and

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began to to organize

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itself, to have programs.

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And then through the great generosity

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of one of our members, we were given

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a a house right

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downtown Wildwood. The dates to 1904

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that had been a home of one

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of the old families and then

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had been a business in the last 30 years

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or so. So we were given the home and

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began to meet there, began to restore it.

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For those of us who aren't familiar with Blytheville,

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tell us a little bit about the town.

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Okay. Blackwood is

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is a town that developed because

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of the railroad. What was then

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the South Carolina, Charlotte and South

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Carolina railroad between

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obviously Columbia and Charlotte,

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North Carolina. It came through in the 1849

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1850 period, and

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it opened up that section of the country

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to more than just farms. The

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a village developed there,

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known as it was called DOKO

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at first. Yeah. And the

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folks around town still use that name for

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a lot of businesses. Doko

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this and doko that. The

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idea the story is that the

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name came from a

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slave who happened to see

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the train taking on water from

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the water tank. And General Peter

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Cook, who was the owner of the slave,

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said that the slave called it Doko where

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the iron horse drinks. Now I

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can't prove that story, but that that

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was published in the 1880s or so. So

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that's as close to the original as we can get.

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In 1879, the town was

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incorporated, but the name was changed

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to Blackwood, which had been

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a girl's school that girls

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from all over the south came to that

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area to attend a

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girl's school called the Blythe Wood Female

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Academy in the 1860s.

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It continued on with the town, took

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on the name of the school. Since

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then, of course, the town was

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mostly a agricultural center.

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It also had a lot of timber

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and forestry products coming through there.

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It remained a pretty small, little, little,

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little place until probably

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the last 20 years when the suburban development

15:56

from Columbia is really moved in our direction.

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And it became more of a I mean, it's

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certainly its own community, but it's

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somewhat of a bedroom community now.

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For history lovers. What all is Bly

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for would have to offer.

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Okay. Well, we have our museum, which

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is free, and so it doesn't

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cost anything to come in. The museum

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has a collection of of

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objects relating to the local history

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that can be kind of generalized

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to other things that people living

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in a rural area in the 19th and

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20th century may have used.

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Expert Leonhardt explanatory

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panels that detail

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the history of the community and

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the general area. And we have

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a really nice collection of Indian

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artifacts, arrowheads,

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projectile points that were given to

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the society and then have been sorted professionally

16:52

by one of our members who is an archaeologist.

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We also try to have programs

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for both our members

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and the public at large. We've had

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a good, great interest in quilts,

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both historical and and

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modern. So we have programs about

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quilts. We have cooperated

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with the local schools and have

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programs for the elementary school

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kids in particular. They come a couple

17:19

of times a year and

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is as far as Blythe with the town goes

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there. Beside our museum,

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there is the National Register of Property.

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That is the town hall, which

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is the Huffman house built in the 1850s.

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It survived the war between the states, even

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though it was right in the middle

17:39

of of Sherman's army that the house

17:42

was not burned. It's been restored

17:44

and it functions as our town hall. There's

17:46

also the Sandy Level Baptist Church,

17:49

which is a a congregation

17:51

dates to the 1760s. The

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church building itself was

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built in 1856 and is still in operation.

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It's really a

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spectacular example of a prosperous

18:05

rural Baptist church from

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the period just before the war.

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And Bligh Ford has a pretty robust tradition of

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horses, right?

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That's correct. Of course, everybody

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use horses until the 1920

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period. But our our

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area, starting in the 1950s

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and sixties, began to

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really explore a a

18:29

horse industry sort of thing. So

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we have many horse farms around

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the area. There are lots of events

18:37

at many of those places that happened during

18:39

the course of the year. And the University

18:42

of South Carolina equestrian

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team is based in

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one of the farms that live through it.

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Now, how far is Blythe Wood from Lake Murray

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and from downtown Columbia?

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From downtown Columbia. It's

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about 15 miles from Blackwood to the state

18:58

house. It's right

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down at 77 and to 77.

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Very easily accessible in

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either direction from

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Lake Murray, probably 15

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to 20 miles. I couldn't give you an exact figure.

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When can folks come visit the Blythe Wood Museum?

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The museum is open

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Wednesday and Thursday, 9

19:19

to 4, and it's open

19:22

on Saturdays. The first and

19:24

third Saturdays tend to three. You

19:27

can just come during that time and

19:30

we'll be glad to have you. You could certainly

19:33

contact the folks at the museum

19:36

if you needed to make sure that they were

19:38

going to be there or if you wanted to ask them about

19:40

something so that that would be the way to go. But

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it is just it's free. Come on in and

19:44

visit.

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What would you say to my friend who's considering visiting

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Blythe Wood on their Lake Murray country

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vacation?

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If you were coming from Charlotte or

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North Carolina area where

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the first exit just

19:57

before you get into Columbia or the last exit

19:59

just before you get into Columbia. And so

20:01

we're a good place to stop before

20:04

things get more hectic downtown. Take

20:07

it a little easy. Stop in a restaurant,

20:09

come look at the sights that I've mentioned

20:12

already from

20:15

other places. Think of Blythe Wood

20:17

as a as a small kind

20:20

of a small oasis in the middle of a much larger

20:23

metropolis that you could drop it

20:25

in and just say hi and take

20:27

a look.

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And finally, what is the best way to get

20:30

in contact with the Blackfoot Historical Society?

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If you want to give us a call. We're at area code 8033338133.

20:39

And if you want to check our website, it is

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Blackwood Historical Society

20:44

dot org.

20:47

Preserving our history is important. Our

20:49

friends at the South Carolina American

20:51

Revolution, Suster Centennial

20:54

Commission have done an amazing job

20:56

promoting and preserving South Carolina's

20:59

crucial role in the American Revolution.

21:05

My name is Mollie Fortune, and I'm the executive

21:07

director of the South Carolina American

21:09

Revolution Sisters Centennial

21:12

Commission. I have a background in preservation

21:14

architecture and worked in

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two fabulous historic theaters, using

21:19

those as economic drivers

21:21

for tourism and and

21:23

education, both

21:25

here in South Carolina and in Georgia,

21:28

and was snagged. Try

21:31

this commission, which is fabulous. And

21:34

that's what we're doing. We are using the history,

21:36

the little known history or forgotten history

21:38

of South Carolina and the revolution as economic

21:41

drivers for tourism and education.

21:43

And I think, you know, a lot of people think South

21:46

Carolina history. Civil war is usually

21:48

the the one that comes up a lot. But

21:50

yeah, there is a lot of revolutionary history

21:52

that gets overlooked.

21:55

Very much so. And I'm from Georgia. And

21:57

so when we look at South Carolina, you're 100%

21:59

correct. We think civil war

22:01

all the way. And in reality,

22:04

South Carolina is the reason why we

22:06

have the government that we do have today. And we're not

22:08

a commonwealth or we're not part of Great

22:10

Britain. We had over 400 skirmishes,

22:13

murders, events here in South

22:15

Carolina alone. And

22:17

if it wasn't for, like we said this and

22:20

it really kind of was a civil war here in South

22:22

Carolina, neighbor against neighbor and just

22:24

wearing out the British, they

22:26

would never have left. So if it wasn't

22:28

for this southern campaign throughout

22:31

the South, mainly within South

22:33

Carolina, it would be very different right now.

22:36

So what all deal do to kind

22:38

of help shine the light on that history?

22:41

We're working with each county, so we

22:43

have touched all 46 counties. They

22:45

are in the process of forming their own committees.

22:48

With those committees, we're able to grant

22:51

funds for educational purposes,

22:53

for tourism purposes, for

22:55

economic development, such as

22:57

interpreting a site. We

23:00

have a county that is really interested in forming

23:02

a bike trail that will

23:04

take folks along some old colonial

23:06

roads with interpretation. Then,

23:09

of course, they're going to stop and want to get a Coke and

23:11

feed the kids, which also helps the local businesses.

23:14

We're doing it through research and education.

23:16

Like I said, putting

23:19

the papers of many of

23:21

our folks, loyalists as well

23:24

as patriots, transcribing

23:26

those and making them free and accessible to the

23:28

public. Everything we do, we want it to be

23:30

free and accessible to the public. And

23:33

one of the biggest things that differentiates

23:35

us as the South Carolina 258

23:38

from some of the other state two

23:40

fifties is that we really

23:42

want to tell all stories,

23:44

not just the Patriots story, not

23:47

just that of the victor, but as

23:49

we said before, it was the women, it

23:51

was the children, it was the Native Americans.

23:53

It was free and enslaved African-Americans

23:56

that were here. That and the loyalists

23:58

can have a good party without loyalists that

24:01

were here that made the story so complete.

24:03

And those records are not

24:05

as forthcoming. And we need to tell

24:07

those stories. Yeah.

24:09

And that's something that, you know,

24:11

I think a lot of people forget because we have not

24:14

had a war in America, followed

24:16

on our turf since civil

24:18

war. But people forget how much

24:20

the Revolutionary War impacted

24:23

everyone.

24:25

Absolutely impacted everyone. Your

24:28

your men would go out fighting and by

24:30

the way, they would fight and then they have to come back and harvest.

24:32

Or sometimes they couldn't come back and harvest. And the women

24:34

were raising the kids. They

24:36

were, you know, making sure that their neighbor

24:38

who was using the fact that they didn't like their potato

24:41

salad from ten years ago as an excuse to

24:43

come over and burn their house. These women

24:45

are defending their houses. They're shoving their kids

24:47

up chimneys to to keep them

24:49

safe from the gunfire outside

24:53

that they're having to do

24:55

with just as much work. And then you have these

24:57

amazing stories of the

24:59

Native Americans who are helping our

25:01

soldiers and our families freed

25:04

and enslaved Africans

25:06

that were here, that were transporting messages

25:08

or even fighting. We have found

25:10

that this really was

25:12

an integrated war. There were

25:14

African Americans fighting right along

25:17

with our patriots, men and women.

25:19

We just learned not too long ago

25:22

as a commission that apparently there was

25:24

a fantastic

25:26

freed African group

25:29

of what we call dragoons cavalry that

25:31

were just raiding the low country.

25:34

Just absolutely could not

25:37

stand any patriot rating

25:39

the low country and they were all African

25:41

Americans on the loyalist side.

25:43

And they were rewarded after the war

25:46

and were able to move to Barbados where

25:48

they, you know, basically form the criminal justice

25:50

system, if you will. I mean, that's my

25:52

take on it. And then,

25:54

you know, I've got a patriot, a woman who

25:57

had her husband taken from

25:59

her, and she was so sick and

26:01

tired of dealing with the kids, the animals in the fields

26:04

that she got in her oxcart, drove

26:06

down to Camden and went and got him. So

26:08

you you know, and then you've got these fabulous

26:10

stories of the Native Americans

26:13

working alongside, helping out

26:16

in South Carolina so deep

26:19

in revolutionary history. And

26:21

how. Every

26:24

citizen dug their heels in. But

26:27

at the end of the day, it's

26:29

amazing to me how they

26:32

all came back together to form this country.

26:36

That is amazing is a lot of history.

26:38

I didn't know. And I

26:40

mean, it's just so cool that everyone

26:43

got together and dug together for

26:45

those.

26:46

They did. They really did. And I

26:48

have learned that the French and Indian

26:50

War really played a huge piece into

26:52

it as well. And, you know, for me that

26:54

was kind of skimmed over. But the

26:57

personality, we call them characters, and

26:59

they really are. And you

27:02

may have it's funny, you know, in my research

27:05

and just learning, you

27:07

have one guy who's a loyalist

27:09

and then you read three days later, he's a patriot.

27:11

You're like, wait a minute, same guy. What's going on? You

27:13

know, it's these people are just

27:15

like us trying to forge

27:18

a life and

27:20

a path and a government and

27:23

humanity.

27:25

And that's that's so I mean, that's

27:27

interesting because, you know, we

27:29

think we think like, oh, they were on

27:31

the same side the whole time. And now, I mean, just like

27:33

all of us have probably evolved

27:36

politically over our lifetime. They

27:39

probably I mean, they did the same thing.

27:41

Oh, absolutely. You know, and as

27:43

you grow and you learn, your perspective

27:45

changes, too. And so these are real

27:47

people that did, you know. Yes, you

27:49

have Francis Marion's and the

27:51

Thomas Sumners who always stayed on that side. But

27:54

every everyday folks and their letter

27:56

writing and what their families were

27:58

going through, I mean, this was tearing families apart

28:01

or it was bringing them closer together and

28:04

it. It reminds

28:07

me that once you get outside of Charleston,

28:09

which had two major battles, or Camden which

28:11

had two major battles, everything else

28:13

is out here and there's a lot

28:16

of land and not that many people,

28:18

but that they were all coming together to

28:21

to fight for what they believed.

28:24

Absolutely. That's great. So,

28:26

you know, this podcast is focused

28:28

on like Murray in the Columbia

28:31

area. Is there anything right now that

28:33

people who are maybe visiting that area can

28:35

come do come see to kind of learn more

28:37

about the Revolutionary War?

28:39

Yes. This area is very rich in

28:41

revolutionary history. I am a newbie myself,

28:43

so I'm part of that Lake Murray country. Our

28:46

website, South Carolina 250 dot com

28:48

has a can you visit now

28:50

a tab so it will tell you all the things

28:52

that are open the trails that you can walk,

28:55

the houses you can go to the stories

28:57

you can hear absolutely

29:00

anything you walk through right now pretty much

29:02

in downtown, especially if you go downtown Columbia

29:04

you know, Sumpter Street, Marion,

29:07

all these things went when Columbia

29:09

was founded. Just walk around and look at those markers

29:13

down in Lake Murray. There's some plantations

29:15

that were flooded, of course, and they're

29:17

just. Yes. Go to the website,

29:19

to be frankly honest, because there is so

29:22

much we have about 98 pages worth

29:24

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29:26

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29:29

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30:01

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30:15

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