On the Horseshoe

On the Horseshoe

A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina

  • Author: West, Elizabeth Cassidy; Allen, Katharine Thompson; Edgar, Walter B.
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781611176001
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611176018
  • eISBN Epub: 9781611176018
  • Place of publication:  South Carolina , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2015
  • Month: October
  • Language: English

The comprehensive history of the original campus structures and the people who lived and worked there

Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, the University of South Carolina is one of the nation's oldest public colleges. Located in the heart of downtown Columbia and bound by Sumter, Pendleton, Bull, and Greene Streets, this historic landscape, known today as the Horseshoe, has both endured and prospered through more than two centuries of South Carolina's often-turbulent history.

In On the Horseshoe: A Guide to the Historic Campus of the University of South Carolina, Elizabeth Cassidy West and Katharine Thompson Allen offer a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the historic Horseshoe. So much more than just a walking tour of Carolina's historic original campus, On the Horseshoe features a wealth of archival photographs and drawings dating back to the nineteenth century and also provides a close look at the Horseshoe's structures as well as the men and women who lived, worked, and studied in them.

A numbered map with corresponding descriptions locates more than two dozen structures on the original campus and includes the history of each one, the important events that took place there, and its current use. Walter Edgar, Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at USC, provides a foreword.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Map of the Horseshoe
  • Horseshoe Landscape
  • Rutledge College
  • President's House
  • Slave Quarters
  • Maxcy Monument
  • Legare College
  • Pinckney College and Elliott College
  • Lieber College
  • Longstreet Theatre
  • Horseshoe Wall
  • South Caroliniana Library
  • Grave of J. Rion McKissick
  • Flinn Hall and War Memorial
  • Harper College
  • McCutchen House
  • DeSaussure College
  • Sidewalks
  • McKissick Museum
  • Original President's House
  • Osborne Administration Building
  • Old Observatory
  • Thornwell College
  • Maxcy College
  • Currell College
  • Woodrow College
  • Preston College
  • Old Coker College
  • Bibliography
  • Index
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • R
    • S
    • T
    • W
    • Y

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