Old Photographs of Pendleton SC
Most of these old photographs of Pendleton SC date to the early 1900's. How did I get these photos? Well, that is a good story.
One day Frank Crenshaw showed me these photos and I asked him if I could get copies made. He told me that Mr. Norton Campbell had found an old camera at the home of Punch Hunter, a long time Pendleton resident who died at the ripe old age of 100 plus years. In the old camera was some film that had never been developed so Norton developed them. Most of these pictures are a result of that. On January 26, 1989 I showed these pictures to one of our then 90 year old residents who grew up in Pendleton, Miss Ruth Boggs. She went through the pictures and told me about each one. It was so interesting. I have several pages of notes and will share her thoughts with you.
Some others came from Clemson University's Strom Thurmond Institute.
Pendleton Tire Co. and Burger King display a few of these in thier businesses and there are several people around town that have this set of pictures.
I am telling these stories as they were told to me.
Please feel free to shed some light on any of them. I would love to hear from you in the comments section below.
Update: This lens is a lot of fun as I hear from friends that I haven't heard from in awhile offering to share their old photographs. Thank you, Pendleton, for making this lens a community wide project. Please keep sharing those old pictures and stories! I love it!
Hope you enjoy!
Another Update: Due to length of this site, a Part 2 has been developed. I am still adding pictures and stories so hope you enjoy it as well. Please continue to send me pictures and stories.
Old Pendleton Photos Part 2

OLD HUNTER HOUSE
East Main Street
The house had a kitchen connected in the back. It was bricked after the fire.

OLD HUNTER HOUSE
PUNCH HUNTER, TOM WATKINS AND RALPH HUNTER
In old Ford
Punch Hunter, Tom Watkins and Ralph Hunter in old Ford
MRS. SUSIE ADGER'S BUGGY
She had a buggy and a chaffeur
SUZIE ADGER'S BUGGY
GEORGE SMITH MILL

SMITH MILL
LITTLE CAMP HOUSES
In the mountains

Little Camp House near Whitewater Falls
1906 RED SHIRT MILITIA REUNION
Pendleton SC
If you want to learn more about who they were please see this link below.
Red Shirt Militia
It was part of our history, like it or not.
1906 Red Shirt Reunion in Pendleton SC
CONGRESSMAN AIKEN
Unveiling the cannon
Clemson students from years ago probably remember the Pendleton Cannon getting stolen from time to time as a prank and always returned. This happened so much that the cannon had to be permanently placed in front of the Farmers Hall.
CONGRESSMAN AIKEN
CONGRESSMAN WYATT AIKEN
US House of Representatives for 6 terms: 1903-1917
- Congressman Wyatt Aiken
- Learn more about Congressman Wyatt Aiken
QUEEN STREET
This is very interesting

Queen Street
AIKEN GUARDS
RED SHIRT REUNION IN PENDLETON
Note from Donna Roper, former Curator for the Pendleton District Commission:
On the Red Shirts Reunion picture of the Aiken guards, the gun carriage carrying the cannon actually reads Peace Maker -- this same gun carriage is in the Agricultural museum.
Thank you, Donna!

Aiken Guards at the Red Shirt Reunion
BROAD STREET
1906 Red Shirt Reunion

Red Shirt Reunion going down Broad St in Pendleton
Pretty Ladies Unveiling the Cannon
Red Shirt Reunion 1906

Unveiling the Peace Cannon
OLD FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Main Street in Pendleton
In a paper entitled "Pendleton History As Told Me and From Memory" written by Emma A. Sitton in 1961, she describes what I think is that same building as being Carriage Shop. Someone might have more information on this and I would appreciate your sharing it. She states the following in her paper:
"From the square on the right side John B. Sitton had a Carriage Shop where carriages, buggies, wagons and harness were made. The shop was a long brick building, two stories, two rooms on the ground floor, two rooms on the second floor. The front room on the ground floor was a show room, the back room was a wood shop. John Dillard was master carpenter. The front room on the second floor was the paint shop, the back room a harness shop where Warren Dillard made all the leather fittings for the carriages as well as harness. The paint room had large doors on the north side and there was a long platform on that side where the finished vehicles were dried. This platform had a ramp with steps in the middle to allow vehicles to be brought down to the show room. The painter, Tilman Jones, was once a slave. On the south side of the shop was a lumber shed."

OLD FORD MOTOR COMPANY IN PENDLETON
SOUTH SIDE OF THE SQUARE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PENDLETON
Looking Back
1802 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
HISTORIC PHOTO OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

OLD METHODIST CHURCH
Jerry Sloan Shares Great Old Pendleton Photos
Great old photos, Jerry. Thank you!
Old Presbyterian Church
Mt. Bethel Church
Mt. Bethel Church, Old Presbyterian Church, Pendleton Supermarket, and Smith Oil
Photos contributed by Jerry Sloan
Note from Liz Giles Freeze on Oct 16, 2008
Hi Nancy
Elizabeth Giles Freeze here. I was shocked to see my daddy's store in the photos. I had to call Mother back here to see it. The only mistake is that the store was called P & G Food Stores. My dad was in partnership with Jute Price of Seneca. Their first store was on Main Street in Seneca next to the hotel. They decided that daddy would move his family to Pendleton and open up another store. Daddy built the building that now houses Crenshaw's TV & Appliance. Daddy and Horace Crenshaw were good friends.
When Jute Price and daddy split their partnership, the store name became Giles Food Store. Somewhere I have a pad where the person who answered the phone took an order with that letter head. They shopped for you, put the bags in daddy's delivery truck and took it to the customer. Don't we wish we could do that now?!
Thanks for giving me a heads up on this. I also saw you & me in the school picture. WOW. Mrs. O'Dell's class.
Liz
Giles Food Store Grand Opening
Jerry Sloan's Dad
left to right
Levi Campbell,Doc Crenshaw, H.B. Barnette, Jule Aull and J.C. Sloan, Sr.
The next picture is J.C. Sloan, Sr. when he was 15 or 16 yrs old
Pendleton Town Council 1950's
J.C. Sloan, Sr about 15 or 16 yrs old
Denise Jackson Shares Pictures from King"s Chapel
Thank you, Denise
PHOTOS BY LEWIS D. MOREHEAD, ANDERSON, SC
2nd Picture - THE LAST LADY KNEELING (TO THE FAR RIGHT) WITH THE WHITE FLOWER IN HER HAIR, IS LILA WINSTON GANTT - SANDRA GANTT'S MOTHER. IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, LILA IS THE ONLY ONE STILL LIVING (other than the little boy - probably).

Ladies of King's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church - 1950's

1950's Ladies of King's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church #2
Sloan Manufacturing Co. formerly LaFrance and now Reigel Industries
Sam Hall and Lou Crenshaw Hall (Arthur Hall's parents and grandparents of Ronald Hall)
VIEW FROM MICASA
1842 LIBERTY HALL INN
MOVING AHEAD ABOUT A FEW YEARS
PENDLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Pendleton Elementary (PHS Class of 66)
Old Pendleton High School
Pendleton Elementary 1935
On the steps of the old high school

1935 FIRST GRADE AT PENDLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1939 Pendleton High School Graduating Class
Janice Crenshaw Gunnin finds the Tate Sisters on Squidoo
Janice shares this 1939 PHS picture with us.
CLASS OF 1939
1st row L/R: Virginia Campbell, Jeter Glenn, Agnes Campbell, Thomas Horton, Lucile Foster, Audrey Moore, Lena Beth Martin, Benny Eskew, Betty Wadkins, Charles Fant.
2nd row L/R: Prof. Bruce, Cecil Hicks, Betty Lay, Mary Crenshaw, Inez Besaks, Charles Lee Pruitt, Margaret Evatt, Harry Graham, Barbara Stewart, L. Grall?, Bernice Burgess.
3rd row L/R: Ralph Barett, Wilburn King, Robert Fergerson, Bill Crenshaw, James Moore, Ruth Branyoun, Ester Holden, Miss C.Dusewberry?, Supt. Brown.
4th row L/R: Charles Presher, Louise Wannermaker, Dot Hanks, Ola Lou White, Elvira Lee Williams, Inez Brown, Decise Gillispie, ? Stogall, Ola McHugh, Thelma Griffith
The above names were written on the back of the picture in Daddy's handwriting. I have tried to the best of my ability to read and type the names correctly but it is difficult to do. If you recognize or know of any corrections, please email them to me.
PHS 1949
PENDLETON FARMERS HALL 1826
OLD JAIL AND LIONS CLUB PICTURE
Please check it. You will be glad you did.
Pendleton SC
Old Pendleton Jail

Pendleton Lions Club views plans for Hartwell Reservoir 1958
THE DOG HOUSE
Pendleton's Old Gymnasium
NOTE: Kathy Clark asked her brother Alvin to identify the young men in this photo.
Nancy, In the old basketball photos..49-50, my brother Alvin Clark is in there. I sent the web to him and he ID'd them all except two. Front L-R
Melvin Barnette, Delano McClain, Buddy Campbell, ?Julian Landreth, Johnny McConnell, Joe Taylor, unknown, Ben Hunter, Charles Brown, unknown. Back Row
Alvin Clark, Curtis Rogers, Bobby Aiken, Marvin Madden, Herbert Hendricks, ?mascot, Mr. Scott, Ronnie Scott.

1949-50 PENDLETON HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM
DOC HELLAMS
Almost 50 years in Pendleton

Doc Hellams - 1960
Calvin and Melvin Barnette
with Grandpa and Grandma Hicks

Calvin and Melvin Barnette with Grandpa and Grandma Hicks
Tanglewood Sloan
Thank you Jerry for sharing this old photo.
My friend, BJC, had this to say about when Tanglewood Sloan burned:
I remember when Tanglewood burned. We lived across the street in the Presbyterian manse, and had not been there long. We had no curtains in the bedroom, just shades. My husband jumped out of bed shouting "Wake up. wake up...we've got to get the girls out of here...our house is on fire!!!" Turns out, it was not our home, but Tanglewood, across the street that was on fire, and the flames were crackling so loud that it sounded like it was our house. We all got up and shivered thankfully and tearfully for that grand old lady. The firemen were pouring water across the street onto the Pure Oil station to keep it from catching on fire. We had known some Clemson architecture students who had lived there earlier. Most folks were suspicious of them, thought they were "hippies" but we enjoyed them and had a couple of meals with them and tours of the house. When they left they donated their furniture to our church sale.
Alison Hancock Padgett said that her parents owned Tanglewood Sloan when it burned and that they donated the land to the town for the library. The town later sold the land to someone else who later donated it for the library. Alison's mother, Margaret, says that they did not rent to the students who were living there at the time of the fire. She said that they were "squatters".

Tanglewood Sloan
Tanglewood Sloan 1910
Clemson Cadets March in Front of The Chiquola Hotel
Sometime between 1915 -1918
The original photograph belongs
to my cousin, Bob Webb, from Houston, Texas. In the front row, his
father is on trombone in the band formed by Clemson cadets as they march
down Main Street in Anderson. His father, Robert Webb, was a student at
Clemson between 1915-1918 (I think these are the exact years) and was
the recipient of the Norris Medal, awarded to the most outstanding
senior based on their accomplishments and achievements at Clemson. He
went on to work for USDA after receiving his PhD, and became known as
the "father of cotton quality" in recognition of his accomplishments in
the textile industry.
The photo shows the Chiquola Hotel in the background and the row of
buildings to the left were known as "brick range", now the site of the
Anderson courthouse. At the time of the photo, the Webb family owned
most of that block. Charles Williams
Clemson Cadets sometime between 1915-1918
Charles Williams Comes Through Again With A Great Photo
Thank you Charles
"This is another photo showing Clemson cadets and band marching down main
street in Anderson. Points of interest include the old courthouse to the
right and the Confederate monument on the left. Looking over the top of
the Confederate monument is an arched sign which said...Welcome to
Anderson..The Electric City.. or some variation of such. The location of
the sign remains a mystery as it was taken down during some remodeling.
Enjoy!
Charles"
Clemson Cadets In Anderson

Crossroads of America made by Photographer Lewis Moorehead near LaFrance, SC
Cherry Summers Garrison Shares Boscobel History and Pictures

I am eventually going to make a lens just about Boscobel but thought you might enjoy a sneak preview. Cherry Garrison's father and uncle built the famous Boscobel Lake and she shares the history and some photos here. I will be adding more of her photos as time goes on. Ken Hancock's father purchased the property and continued to run the golf course and lake until he sold it to the Herberts. This spring I plan to meet with Cherry, Ken and also Harvey Brock and video interviews with them. Harvey has been with the Boscobel Golf Course through all the owners. I am excited and think it will be very interesting.

Sketch of the Summers' Home at Boscobel

Summers' Home at Boscobel Destroyed by Fire

Chief Harry Sloan Newspaper Clipping Contributed by Jerry Sloan
Do You Remember The May Day Programs?
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Maypole Dance
Pendleton Elementary May Pole Dance
Farmers Hall as the Post Office

I was very pleased when TJ Land send me a message on Face Book that he had found this picture on Google. This is pretty much the way it looked when I was growing up. I remember buying 1 cent and 3 cent stamps in there. Ooops. I am really telling my age.
Ladies Bridge Club (1950's) contributed by Sheila Sloan Sellers
Ladies Bridge Club
Thank you, Sheila, for sharing this wonderful photo.
Ellen Stephens and Helen Campbell
Mary Sloan, Becky Tate, Lou Scott, Marie Willingham, Nez Bickley, Eleanor Outzs, and Fredna Jones
Pendleton Memories - A Series
People who grew up in Pendleton share their memories
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PLEASE SHARE YOUR OLD PICTURES OF PENDLETON
Pendleton Pictures from long ago
Thank you

Pendleton's Bicentinial Celebration 1990 The Quattlebaums
Bicentenial Poem 1990
by Shirley Chappell and Nancy Hellams
The Village Green
It's Springtime. The dogwoods are in full bloom.
There is a mystical peace in the air filled with treasured memories of days gone by.
Many have sat in awe of the beauty of this place.
Listen and you can hear them:
The chanting of the Cherokee,
The decisions of the politicians,
The dreams of the early settlers,
The laughter of children playing,
The soldiers marching.
Feel their presence.
So many have walked these grounds and I am proud to be one of them.
Happy 200th Birthday Pendleton, South Carolina!
PENDLETON PHOTO SHOP
All profits from the sale of this merchandise will be donated to Friends of the Park for Veterans Park in Pendleton SC
Interesting reading for South Carolina history buffs
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This really sounds interesting and what is needed for these priceless photos.
Pendleton Enjoys Reflecting On The Past
but also enjoys the Here and Now!
Please visit these lenses about the beautiful quaint southern town of Pendleton South Carolina and Come Visit!-
Pendleton's Friends of the Park (FOTP)
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Are you interested in Pendleton SC's Veterans Park? If so, please join Friends of the Park. FRIENDS OF THE PARK (FOTP) Pendleton, South Carolina Friends of the Park meets every third Monday at 6 pm at Pendleton United Methodist Church in the social...
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Pendleton SC Businesses
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Pendleton,South Carolina is an amazing small town and is home to wonderful shops and restaurants as well as great service oriented businesses. I hope you enjoy reading about them and will patronize our business community. THINK PENDLETON the next...
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Pendleton SC Happenings
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This lens is intended to keep you informed of events and other news about Pendleton SC. We are a small historic town nestled in the foothills of upstate SC. Even though we are a small community, we have a lot going on as you can see by the listings....
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29670 in Pendleton SC
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The beautiful historic town of Pendleton SC and the surrounding area is located in Anderson County and only 4 miles from Clemson University, 3 1/2 hours from the beach, 1 hour from the mountains, 2 hours from Atlanta, Ga, and only 45 minutes from Gre...
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Pendleton, SC
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Pendleton, SC is a small town in Anderson County, SC. The town was founded in 1790 and is the largest historic area in the entire United States. The town boasts lovely historic homes and plantations, a town square around a village green, and one of t...
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Pukeko wrote...
What a beautiful lens and such a great gift to the community. Here is an angel blessing to go with that shiny new purple star.
charlino wrote...
Outstanding! A wonderful historic reference for one's beloved home town. Beautifully done, and well deserved of a Purple Star.
Joan4 wrote...
Congratulations on that beautiful purple star! This is one of my favorite lenses ever!!
Joan4 wrote...
I do love that bridge club photo -- that crowd loved to laugh! I think they laughed more than they actually played bridge! What fun they had!
WindyWinters wrote...
Old Photos are indeed treasures of the past. Thanks for sharing these wonderful memories of Pendleton, SC. :)
kab wrote...
I'm in love with google books, you gave me something to find. And I think I found it:
Old Stone Church
The Trescott House
GrowWear wrote...
This page has really grown since I was here last. It was good before, but it is even better now. Pendleton sounds wonderful. I sure can see why you love it.
OhMe wrote...
in reply to spirituality Oh me! Thank you so much for the blessing.
Janusz wrote...
I´d already rated & Faved this Wonderful journey back in time, now I have my Wings... I flew back to Bless it aswell :)
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in reply to SemperFidelis Wow. I can't believe it. You are wonderful, Colleen. Thank you, thank you!
SemperFidelis wrote...
Blessings from a SquidAngel. I remember blessing this lens the last time I was a SquidAngel. :o)
OhMe wrote...
in reply to Joan4 Thank you all for visiting this lens. It sure has been fun and I appreciate each of you taking part in it.
TheWhistler wrote...
Great photographs, I love a look back at how things use to be.
Thanks for the lens.
Snozzle wrote...
What an interesting lens. Though I don't know Pendleton, other than from your lenses, I love these old photos. They are fascinating to see - it's real history.
Mike.
OhMe wrote...
in reply to Michey Thank you, Michey. It has been a fun lens to work on and I am still getting contributions from local people.
ZBT wrote...
What a beautiful, beautiful tribute to Pendleton. They are so lucky to have you as a resident/fan. I got teary-eyed reading about your town ... the love that you have for it is awesome. I hope to see it garner LOTD one day. Best wishes!
Michey wrote...
WOW! It is a great lens. I like photography in general, but black and white photography is my true love.
I consider black and white photos more dramatic, it is coming from all the nuances between Black and White, color picture are superficial on my mind, good for 21 century, sorry about the ironical comment.
Do you know that if you have old pictures, and/or old postcards about specific landmarks/locations, you can make a fortune on eBay? Try it!
Thanks for the beauty of this lens
Regards
Michey
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