WINNSBORO – The Fairfield County Historical Museum will host its annual old-fashioned Christmas open house on Dec. 2, the first Sunday in December, from 3 – 5 p.m. The 1830 Museum will be decorated for the season in period fashion by partnering garden clubs and volunteers from the Fairfield County Historical Society. The lower rooms […]
Author brings book home to Winnsboro
October 11, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Nelle and John Gettys Smith and their children Gettys, Spenser, and Ora, moved to Hilton Head Island in 1963 to take over the work of Charles Frazier who was developing the Sea Pines community. These many years later, Nelle, 86, and now a widow, and her daughter Ora have collected their memories of […]
Mushroom Stations
March 22, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – Fairfield County Museum Director Pelham Lyles visits with Bill Edwards under the ferro concrete ‘mushrooms’ behind Sion Church in downtown Winnsboro. Edwards’ grand uncle, James Minor Workman, was the architect who designed the ‘mushrooms’ as prototypes for service stations that were constructed across the nation in the beginning days of America’s love affair […]
Museum Rings in Season
December 14, 2017 By
WINNSBORO – Every year, the Fairfield County Museum’s annual holiday open house heralds the Fairfield community’s Christmas season. And so it did once more on Sunday evening with music and refreshments in the midst of the museum’s many treasures. The garden clubs of Winnsboro and the surrounding area had lavishly festooned the halls and rooms […]
