Library Guides: A Guide to Using the Historical South Carolina Newspapers Database: Commerce & Industry

Selected Articles

The York Gold Mines
Keowee courier (Pickens, S.C.), July 27, 1867, p. 2, col. 4.
An Important Law, An Act to Protect Laborers and Persons Working under Contract on Shares of Crops
The Anderson intelligencer (Anderson, S.C.) April 22, 1869, p. 1, col. 5.
Etiwan Guanos advertisement and Phoenix Guano ad
The Charleston daily news (Charleston, S.C.), Feb. 15, 1871, p. 4, col. 5.
The Columbia Canal and the Congaree River
The daily phoenix (Columbia, S.C.), February 21, 1872, p. 2, col. 2.
Cotton Mills in Carolina: Their Number, Production and Profits
Keowee courier (Pickens, S.C.), April 8, 1880, p. 1, col. 1.
The Wonderful South Carolina Clay Beds
The Anderson intelligencer (Anderson, S.C.) February 10, 1881, p. 1, col. 6.
Charleston Iron Works and Sales Room advertisement
The times and democrat (Orangeburg, S.C.), August 16, 1883, p. 3, col. 7.
Better than Gold Mines, South Carolina’s Phosphate Industry
The Anderson intelligencer (Anderson, S.C.) September 17, 1885, p. 1, col. 8.
The Phosphate Situation
The Anderson intelligencer (Anderson Court House, S.C.), September 20, 1893, p. 2 col. 3.
The Story of Puddin’ Swamp, Richest Tobacco Lands in the Low and Middle Country
The watchman and southron (Sumter, S.C.), February 26, 1896, p. 3, col. 1.
The Exposition at Charleston, It will be thoroughly representative of the industrial interests of the South
Keowee courier (Pickens, S.C.), October 10, 1900, p. 5 col. 2.
South Carolina’s Greatest Cotton Mill, The Olympia Mill, The Largest Cotton Factory Under One Door
The watchman and southron (Sumter, S.C.) October 2, 1901, p. 10
Child Labor in the Cotton Mills
Laurens advertiser (Laurens, S.C.), January 22, 1902, p. 1, col. 1.
Best Kaolin in America, A Chance for Sumter to Secure a Great Industry
The watchman and southron (Sumter, S.C.), June 24, 1903, p. 3, col. 2.
Newberry - A City of Cotton
Trade and Industrial Edition, The herald and news (Newberry, S.C.), April 19, 1912.
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This 16-page special edition highlights trade and industry in the Newberry community.
The Parr Shoals Hydro-Electric Development
The watchman and southron (Sumter, S.C.) April 23, 1913, p. 7, col. 3.
To Build Big Plant, Southern Power Company to Have Plant on Wateree
The watchman and southron (Sumter, S.C.) March 3, 1917, p. 5, col. 3.
Prosperity Proclamation Edition
The Bamberg herald (Bamberg, S.C.), October 10, 1918.
Tobacco market, movement to establish drying plants here
The watchman and southron (Sumter, S.C.) August 30, 1919, p. 2, col. 1.