Unknown to the family who built their homestead at the time, the Mount Joseph Plantation would serve as a pivotal intersection for supply routes during the American Revolution. Situated on the western banks of the Congaree River, the site became valuable for its access to the waterways connected Charleston to the Carolina interior. It would be here, at the site…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: lithograph Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4556 Annotation: Phrenology Year: 1834

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-55762 Year: 1852

Author:   Stephen F. Austin Date:1836 Annotation: Stephen F. Austin defends Texas’ Declaration of Independence. Document: It is with the most unfeigned and heartfelt gratitude that I appear before this enlightened audience, to thank the citizens of Louisville, as I do in the name of the people of Texas, for the kind and generous sympathy they have […]

Early years Henry was born in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia on May 29, 1736. His father was John Henry, an immigrant from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who had attended King’s College, Aberdeen before immigrating to the Colony of Virginia in the 1720s. Settling in Hanover County, about 1732 John Henry married Sarah Winston Syme, a wealthy widow […]