Our posts in May have been dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Jefferson Hotel opening at 1801 Main Street.  It seems fitting, on the last day of May, to come full circle and finish with the end of the Jefferson Hotel era.  In 1966 the hotel was imploded and replaced with an area appropriately named, Jefferson Square. In addition to office buildings, 1801 Main Street included the Jefferson Square movie theater.  Like all the other downtown theaters the movie theater disappeared from Main Street  by 1994.  In 1995 the building reopened as the Alcatraz and is still remembered as featuring Marilyn Manson's "The Show Nobody Wants You to See" concert on March 11, 1995.
 

Our posts in May have been dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Jefferson Hotel opening at 1801 Main Street.  It seems fitting, on the last day of May, to come full circle and finish with the end of the Jefferson Hotel era.  In 1966 the hotel was imploded and replaced with an area appropriately named, Jefferson Square. In addition to office buildings, 1801 Main Street included the Jefferson Square movie theater.  Like all the other downtown theaters the movie theater disappeared from Main Street  by 1994.  In 1995 the building reopened as the Alcatraz and is still remembered as featuring Marilyn Manson's "The Show Nobody Wants You to See" concert on March 11, 1995.
 

Accessible Archives is a genealogy database that features historical information not found in larger databases like Ancestry or HeritageQuest.  If you haven’t tried it then you are in for a research treat provided by Richland Library.  Database highlights include digitized South Carolina colonial newspapers and digitized African American Civil War era newspapers. These are resources not found anywhere else online

Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 22, 2013, as Katherine Mellen Charron, author and associate professor of history at North Carolina State University discusses Freedom’s Teacher:  The Life of Septima Clark.

Plantation owner, Revolutionary War patriot, wealthy heiress, and mother-in-law of Major-General Thomas Pinckney -- Rebecca Brewton Motte is one fascinating woman.

South Carolina’s rich history never ceases to amaze me. Although I’m not a native South Carolinian, I am always eager to learn more about South Carolina’s prominent figures and the events that have greatly influenced the future of this country.