A history of Clinton,
since 1852
Postcards, papers and photographs of Clinton from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Cherokee Indians were Clinton's original inhabitants. The first settler to inhabit the area was John Duncan, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, who arrived in 1752 from Pennsylvania and settled along a creek between the present-day towns of Clinton and Whitmire.
Scots-Irish immigrants from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia became the predominant settlers in the area in the two decades before the American Revolutionary War and took active part in a Revolutionary War battle in 1780 at nearby Musgrove Mill.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Clinton’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewClinton - Presbyterian College of…, 1907: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Clinton
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Clinton, decade by decade
CommonsClinton - Presbyterian College of South Carolina (1907)1907 · postcard
CommonsClinton - Presbyterian College of South Carolinac. 1907 · postcard
CommonsClinton - Broad Street, looking northc. 1908 · postcard
CommonsClinton - Thornwell Orphanagec. 1908 · postcard
CommonsA few of the employees in the Clinton Mills, going home fro…1908
CommonsA row of houses of the cotton mill people. Lydia Mills, Cli…19081990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Clinton - Presbyterian College of South Carolina (1907) (1907) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.