The ghost town of Shelton is located in northwest Fairfield County, South Carolina, along the banks of the Broad River. The early settlement featured a ferry, but grew into a town with the coming of the railroad. The major industries were shipping for the surrounding and the Shivar Springs Bottling Company, located just south of the town. Resources used in this episode:

• Blog post on RandomConnections
• Shelton photos from 1960s - State Newspaper
• interview with Tom McConnell
• Ron Chicone's History of Shelton
• Shivar cisterns on SC Picture Project
• National Register Listing for Shivar
• Shelton Cemetery
• McConnell Cemetery

Henry Martyn Robert - author of Robert's Rules of Order

Robertville is a small farming community in South Carolina, named for a family of French Huguenots that settled in the region. The community was the birthplace of Henry Martyn Robert, author of Robert's Rules of Order, and Alexander Robert Lawton, Confederate General and one of the founders of the American Bar Association.

Robertville Baptist Church is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ellenberg Homesite

The modern town of Ninety Six hold close connections to my family. It's where my grandparents lived, as well as some other, more notorious relatives. Before modern Ninety Six came the college town of Cambridge, named with aspirations of reaching the lofty status of its namesakes in Massachusetts and England.

Resources for this episode:

• Finding Your Roots - Season 5, Episode 10 "All in the Family"
• Samuel Campbell Clegg
  • From a National Park Service report - Ensign Samuel Clegg Samuel Clegg (ca. 1740-1779) was a prominent Loyalist and plantation owner in Craven County
  • and Edgefield District, South Carolina. He was living in South Carolina by 1766 and owned land by 1768. By the late 1770s Clegg owned more than 1,400 acres in South Carolina. At the time of the American Revolution was married to Barbara Marie Flick and they had four children. Clegg served an Ensign in Colonel Boyd’s regiment and he helped to raise recruits and he participated in the battle of Kettle Creek. Clegg, who was considered by the Patriots to be a “ring leader” of the Loyalist uprising, was captured in the battle and marched as a prisoner to Ninety-Six. Clegg was tried for sedition and treason, and hanged at Ninety-Six in late April, 1779 (S.C.D.A.H. 2009; Cann 2004:4-7; Davis 1979b:172-181).
• Star Fort - National Park Service
• Cambridge Hash blog post
• Siloam Baptist Church

Cambridge Tavern:

Cambridge Hall, later Siloam Baptist Church:

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