The area of McCormick and Abbeville Counties was known as the “Calhoun Settlement” or “Lower Long Canes.” Learn of the Lower Long Cane Massacre site where the matriarch of the Calhoun family, Catherine, was killed by the Cherokee. Her son, Patrick, survived and went on to have a son of his own, John... Read more »

Wednesday, November 11 at Noon Presenter: Major Ralph Stoney Bates, USMC (Ret.) Topic: Chester & Nimitz: A Study in Contrast during the War in the Pacific, WWII Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur shared the prosecution of the war in the Pacific, while General Dwight Eisenhower alone controlled the war in Europe and Africa... Read more »

Ghost Trail: U.S. Marines & the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, 1943 Few military battles have matched the concentrated ferocity of the three-day fight between U.S. and Japanese forces in November 1943 for a sandy sliver of land halfway between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. Learn the history and importance behind this 76-hour battle... Read more »