McPherson Playhouse

Dedicated 26th, February 1965

Named in Honour of

Thomas Shanks McPherson

Born Airdrie, Scotland, prominent business man, philanthropist and citizen of Victoria for fifty-three years, who died at the age of 89 years on 3rd, December 1962, and under whose will a ...

Homestead Strike

On the morning of July 6, 1892, on orders of the Carnegie Steel Co., 300 Pinkerton agents attempted to

land near here; strikers, citizens repulsed them. Seven workers, three Pinkertons were killed. 8,000 state militia arrived July 12; by November the ...

Victoria Fire Department Headquarters

1899 -1959

You are near the site of the Victoria Fire Department Headquarters, which served downtown Victoria from 1899 to 1959.

History

Victoria’s central business district grew dramatically during the 1880s and 1890s. More “modern’ buildings in size and value signalled [sic] a ...

St. Paul's, Stono / St. Paul's Churchyard

St. Paul's, Stono

St. Paul’s Parish, one of the ten original parishes of colonial S.C., was created by the Church Act of 1706. The first parish church was built in 1708 on a bluff overlooking the Stono River. The parsonage ...

Japanese Internment

On April 22, 1942, 273 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were exiled from their homes in the Greater Victoria area. None of the survivors of this event ever returned to Victoria to re-establish a home.

On August 4, 1992, ...

The Civil War Submarine, H.L. Hunley

Brought from Mobile, Alabama in August

1863 to help defeat the Union naval

blockade of Charleston, H.L. Hunley

became the first submarine in history

to sink an enemy ship. Armed with a

spar-mounted torpedo, it sank the

Federal blockading vessel, ...

Transportation, Growth, and Development

Columbus was founded specifically for the purpose of being the state capital in 1812, and was selected primarily due to its location - near the center of the state. But a lack of transportation options restricted access to town. For ...

Markle Mill Site

Abraham Markle (1770-1826) had gristmill and dam built here 1817. Mill had an early horizontal water wheel in a splatter box located within the stone foundation of the structure. Wooden part of mill destroyed by fire 1938. Markle was one ...

The Rock School

The Rock School

1779

Originally located in front of its large namesake boulder across the road, it was moved to its present location in 1971.

Used from 1779 until 1911, it had several different names as school districts were added to the ...

Victoria City Hall

Hôtel de Ville de Victoria

Victoria’s first city hall was designed in 1875. The building was begun three years later and completed in 1890. The designer was John Teague, an Englishman long resident in Victoria, who was responsible for planning many ...