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Support The Museum By Becoming A Member!
Charter memberships will be available through December 2007. Click on any level
for complete details and benefits to society levels. (You will need adobe reader
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$100 Household Membership
Dicey Langston Springfield
(b. Laurens District, 1766)
Inspired by love of family and country, Dicey Langston twice risked her life
to confound Loyalists, once walking miles at night through swamps and creeks to
warn her brother of an attack and once throwing herself between her aging father
and Tory raiders, refusing to give them the information they sought.
$250 Household Membership
Brigadier General Daniel Morgan
(b. New Jersey, 1736)
Morgan joined the American Army at the start of the Revolutionary War and distinguished
himself in the early northern campaigns. His most memorable achievement was as
hero of the Battle of Cowpens, in which he led a group of untrained militia and
Continentals to victory over a superior British force.
$500 Household Membership
Vardry McBee
(b. near present-day Gaffney, 1775)
Rightly called “the father of Greenville,” Vardry McBee was a determined and
hard-working entrepreneur whose efforts in the mid-1800s turned Greenville into
a center of commerce and culture.
$1,000 Household or Corporate Membership
Richard Pearis
(b. Ireland, 1725)
A daring frontiersman and Indian trader, Richard Pearis was one of the first
European settlers to successfully acquire land, including present day Paris Mountain,
in what was to become Greenville.
$5,000 Household or Corporate Membership
Brigadier General Andrew Pickens
(b. Pennsylvania, 1739)
In 1752 Pickens moved to South Carolina and took part in frontier warfare against
the Cherokee. He served with distinction in the Revolutionary War and rose to
the rank of general. Following his military career, he served as U.S. Congressman
from SC and as Commissioner for Native American Relations in the South.
$10,000 Household or Corporate Membership
Old Ninety Six Society
The early settlement of Ninety Six has been the site of much Upcountry history:
an Indian trading center, Revolutionary War battles, and one of the earliest circuit
courts in the Backcountry.
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