Beech Island Agricultural Club

Beech Island Agricultural Club is a South Carolina historical marker in Beech Island, Aiken County, dedicated 1973.

Aiken County · dedicated 1973 · U.S. Hwy. 278 at its intersection with S.C. Sec. Rd. 2-1139, Beech Island

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Front: On January 5, 1856, Governor James H. Hammond and eleven other farmers of this area organized the Beech Island Agricultural Club for the diffusion of agricultural knowledge and the regulation of illegal slave traffic. Monthly meetings and barbecues have been held almost without interruption since the club's founding. Reverse: In 1883 E. Spann Hammond donated to the Beech Island Agricultural Club a four-acre circular tract of land located less than a mile north of this site. The original club house was destroyed by fire on August 7, 1967. The site of the building is marked by a dedicatory plaque. The new club house was dedicated in June 1968.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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