13,261 research outputs found
York County History - Accession 68 - M30 (42)
No full textThe York County History collection consists of a brief summary of York County, SC history from its settlement in 1750 to the Great Depression in the 1930s. The author is unknown.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1119/thumbnail.jp
History of York - Accession 122 - M57 (66)
No full textThe History of York Collection consists of a history of York, SC issued by the York Chamber of Commerce. The written history of York(ville), SC covers the period from the Revolutionary War to 1860.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1149/thumbnail.jp
Yorkville, SC City Schools Annual Report - Accession 1513 - M737 (794)
No full textThis collection consists of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of The City Schools: A School dedicated to the Earnest Cultivation In Its Pupils of Good Health, Sound Learning, and Sincere Character: Yorkville, SC 1911-1912. This publication consists of school statistics, calendars, programs, school rosters from 1st grade through 10th grade, classes, and many photographs of classes, students, and school activities. A majority of the publication consists of information about Yorkville, SC (now York, SC) and images of the Yorkville Graded School, the Yorkville Colored Graded School, downtown York, Businesses and mills, streets, churches, orphanages, citizens, farms and fields, cotton scenes, Sulphor Springs, Shooting Range Camp, Kings Mountain Battlefield, and a couple images of African Americans. It also includes many advertisements from local businesses. This publication would prove invaluable to anyone researching education in the area as well as York(ville), SC history in the early 20th century.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2321/thumbnail.jp
York County Library Photograph Collection - Accession 1728
No full textThis collection consists of photographs, negatives, and contact sheets collected by the York County Library. The collection consists mostly of photographs relating to York County SC, many of which are of Rock Hill, SC in particular, and includes photographs of people, places, and events in the county. Some of the subjects include graduating classes of Rock Hill Graded School and of early Rock Hill High School graduating classes, graded school of York faculty, Edgemore School, aerial photographs of downtown Rock Hill, Rock Hill Train Depot, Rock Hill businesses and street scenes, churches, Rock Hill events such as Circus Day and parades, local mills, local homes, Glencairn Gardens, Civil Rights Movement in Rock Hill, York County citizens and homes, and many of other topics of local interest. The collection also includes many photographs, negatives, and contact sheets produced and used by the Rock Hill Herald. The photographs in this collection demonstrate the history of Rock Hill and how the town has changed throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2699/thumbnail.jp
York Architectural and Historic District Survey - Accession 1714 M827 (884)
No full textThis collection consists of a City of York Architectural and Historic District Surveys conducted to help determine the architectural and historical significance of districts, sites, objects, buildings, and other structures in York. The survey was conducted in 2007 and 2008 by Brockington And Associates, Inc. for the city of York and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History with the objective “to identify all aboveground historic architectural resources in the survey universe that retain sufficient integrity to be included in the Statewide Survey of Historic Places. This survey is a great source for anyone interested in the history and growth of York, SC. The survey offers a history of the City from its beginnings and of its historic homes, businesses, neighborhoods, and other properties.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2682/thumbnail.jp
York Boys at Clemson College
No full textContains list of York County, SC residents enrolled at Clemson
A Partial History of Some of the Early Schools and Educational Movements of York County - Accession 453 - M187 (228)
No full textA Partial History of Some of the Early Schools and Educational Movements of York County is a thesis submitted to the University of South Carolina for the degree of Master of Arts by Palmer Grier Sherer, 1929. Reprinted as a project of The Historical Records Survey of the Division of Women’s and Professional Projects of the Works Progress Administration.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1576/thumbnail.jp
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