-Books by Bobby F. Edmonds

Soft Cover, 395 pages, 100 photographs, bibliography, notes, index.
$30.00 (including sales tax, add $3 for mailing)
The Making of McCormick County chronicles the history of McCormick County, South Carolina, from early settling, the Long Cane Massacre, a full chapter on the founding of the French Huguenot settlement at New Bordeaux including ship list and land grant list, Londonborough settlement of German Palatines on Hard Labor Creek, African American beginnings and influence, the American Revolution, Moses Waddel and Willington Academy, execution by fire of a slave named Jerry, Billy Dorn’s Gold Mines, the life of Unionist James Louis Petigru, Confederate Revolution, Radical Reconstruction, the hanging of innocent Samuel Banks; the murder of John and Catherine Harmon, the story of the Town of McCormick.

Hard Cover, 423 pages, 165 photos, appendixes, bibliography, notes, index.
$30.00 (including sales tax, add $3 for mailing)
McCormick County Land of Cotton showcases the lives of area people: emergence of King Cotton yoked to the institution of slavery; the controversial Tillmans during the Era of Tillmanism; construction of the railroads by convict labor in shackles and chains, emergence of agriculture- and railroad-based towns, the long struggle to gain countyhood, the devastating calamities of the Great Depression, the trials of World War II followed by post war winds of change on the social, political, and economic scene, construction and development of Clark Hill Dam and Lake, the dawning of a new day for the County brought about by the spawning of the residential community Savannah Lakes Village, a history of the local infrastructure, chapters on social order and disorder, twenty stories of violence, a vernacular glossary, and a comprehensive story of John de la Howe School.

Hardcover, 160 pages, 80 photographs and illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. $26.45 (including sales tax, add $3 for mailing)
Amid the unfolding events in American history, perhaps no race can offer the same nostalgic appeal as the Scots-Irish. These God-fearing, family-oriented, hard-working, nomadic people, who originated in the lowlands of Scotland and moved to the north of Ireland, arrived on the American shores in great numbers prior to the American Revolutionary War.
Destiny of the Scots-Irish: A Family Saga chronicles the migratory path taken by one family that settled in the extremely significant, Scots-Irish Long Canes settlement in South Carolina.
The tremendously interesting cast of characters weaves a heart-moving story through planting of their family roots, the ravages of war, the lush antebellum era, a world turned upside down by the Civil War, founding of the little town of Willington, SC, plagues and depression, and out migration – families in joy, peace, and strife.

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