A history of St. Matthews,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of St. Matthews from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗St. Matthews was established as the township of Amelia by Gov. Robert Johnson in the 1730s. The Col. J.A. Banks House, Buyck's Bluff Archeological Site, Calhoun County Courthouse, Calhoun County Library, Cherokee Path, Sterling Land Grant, Col. Olin M. Dantzler House, David Houser House, Prehistoric Indian Village, and Puritan Farm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish St. Matthews’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
3 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewSouth Carolina - View of, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from St. Matthews
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St. Matthews, decade by decade
1990s
4 historic places in St. Matthews
4 places in St. Matthews are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Listed 1973Col. Olin M. Dantzler House
Listed 1975Calhoun County Library
Listed 1980Col. J. A. Banks House
Listed 1981Calhoun County CourthouseThen & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as South Carolina - View of (1908) 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.