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United States South Carolina Laurens County Clinton

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Clinton was first settled by Scots-Irish immigrants two decades before the American Revolutionary War. It incorporated as a town in 1852, and was named after Henry Clinton Young, a lawyer from Laurens, who helped lay out the first streets.

Resources

Archives and Libraries

note: Public libraries, public county and college archives

• Presbyterian College James H. Thomason Library
  Items of Interest:
  American History in Video
  America's Historical Newspapers
  Biography in Context
  Cambridge Histories Online
  Encyclopaedia Universalis (French)
  The Greenville News (newspaper)
  InfoTrac/Gale Databases
  JSTOR
  Literature Resources from Gale
  The New York Times Archive
  The State (Columbia, SC) (newspaper)
  and offering THOMCAT (Online catalog of library materials at Presbyterian College)
  
  

Cemeteries

Church History and Records

Presbyterian

• Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church
  

South Carolina Revolutionary patriot, Joseph Ramage, of Laurens County, South Carolina FHL Book 921.73 R14s, film 1697776 Item 2

Colleges

• Presbyterian College, founded 1880. Official website

Newspapers

Current

• The Clinton Chronicle, a weekly newspaper established in 1900, and also, a website of Clinton and Laurens County news that is updated every day.

• The Clinton Chronicle (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current.
• Thornwell Life (Clinton, S.C.) 19??-current.

Historic

• The Clinton Enterprise (Clinton, S.C.) 1887-1888.
• The Clinton Weekly Gazette (Clinton, S.C.) 1888-1???.
• The Thornwell Messenger (Clinton, S.C.) 1910-19??.

Societies, Libraries and Museums

note: the societies with their own memberships, libraries, museums and collections.

Websites

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