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Hidden history of Aiken County, Tom Mack

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-125)

contains biographical information

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non fiction

Hidden history of Aiken County

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Tom Mack

Hernando de Soto Crosses the River : 1540 -- Triple Betrayal Marks Native American Residency during Colonial Period : 1663-1783 -- From Rags to Riches to Rags: Henry Shultz Follows a Dream : 1821 -- The Railroad Comes to Town : 1833 -- Most Edgefield Pottery Actually Made in What is Now Aiken County : 1836 -- Sex Scandal Rocks the State's Power Elite : 1843 -- William Gregg Builds a Factory of Granite : 1845 -- Aikenite Invents Plastic Cotton : 1846 -- County Offers Sanctuary to Nineteenth-Century Botanist : 1853 -- Two Principal Adversaries at the Battle of Aiken are "Frenemies" : 1865 -- Civil War Memoirist Calls Aiken His Home : 1865 -- Quaker Spinster Becomes Important Civil Rights Advocate : 1868 -- Croft Leaves His Stamp on Adopted Community : 1870 -- Graniteville Murder Remains Subject of Abiding Controversy : 1876 -- Massacre and Riots Mark Reconstruction Politics in County : 1876 -- The "Aiken Gamecock" Points the Way to State's Constitutional Convention : 1887 -- Aiken Launches Career of Nation's "Assistant President" : 1900 -- James U. Jackson Revisits the Dream of a Town on the River : 1906 -- Aiken Mansion Boasts Two Significant Literary Links : 1910 -- Aiken Has Ties to Titanic Tragedy : 1912 -- Aiken Retains Tangible Links to Presidential Love Triangle : 1918 -- "The Black Caruso" Gets His Start at Palmetto Park and Pond : 1932 -- Fred Astaire Makes Aiken His Winter Home : 1933 -- Abdicated King Finds Solace in Aiken : 1936 -- German P.O.W. Camp Bears Witness to Daring Escape and Brutal Murder : 1943-46 -- Aiken County Revives the Political Ambitions of Strom Thurmond : 1951 -- Residents of Ellenton Become H-Bomb's First Victims : 1952 -- Joye to Juilliard : Grand Aiken Home Has Second (and Third) Life : 1989