Today, I finally got around to posting a collection of maps from the Methodist collection. These are maps of the churches that were in the South Carolina Conference in 1895. The presiding elders, as we called district superintendents back then, had these map books to help them find each of the local churches in their districts. Note that the railroads are clearly marked – often that would have been the way a presiding elder traveled around his district to hold quarterly conferences in the various churches.
I uploaded these maps to Flickr – where we post a lot of our digital images now – and I made a slideshow of the maps of the districts – from Chester to Sumter. The county lines are different than they were back in 1895 – South Carolina continued to add counties up to the constitutional limit of 46.
I hope you enjoy checking out the maps. Soon I'll add them to the college website as well.