Year: 2020

Marie Elizabeth Venning: Tracing Her Footsteps to tell Her Story

June 19, 2020

. A tintype was donated to Fort Hill in 1938, along with a typewritten letter by Margaret Calhoun, the great-granddaughter of Thomas and Anna Clemson.  The tintype was of Marie, a formerly enslaved woman, who was holding baby Floride Isabela Lee, the Clemsons’ granddaughter. The letter provides few facts, while hinting at others; however, the […]

#OTD – THOMAS G. CLEMSON, IV. DIED ON APRIL 6, 1888

April 6, 2020

#OTD – Thomas G. Clemson. IV. died on April 6, 1888. The date is sometimes called Founder’s Day. With Clemson’s Last Will & Testament initiated the process to create a “High Seminary of Learning,” on the Fort Hill estate. Likewise, it established that Fort Hill shall be “open for the inspection of visitors.” To learn […]