South Carolina Local Historical Organizations Directory 2010

This directory is maintained by the Confederation of South Carolina Local Historical Societies in cooperation with the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.   
 
 
It is designed to be a complete-as-possible listing of the state’s history-related organizations.  While all efforts have been made to make the listing as up to date and accurate as possible, errors and omissions do occur.  Please inform us of corrections.  
Local organizations are listed below within each county.  If an organization has its own web site, a link is provided. 
Abbeville

Abbeville County Historical Society
Abbeville County Museum Association
Abbeville Historic Preservation Commission
Aiken

Aiken County Historical Commission

Aiken County Historical Society
Aiken County Museum

Beech Island Historical Society

Historic Aiken Foundation
Olde Town Preservation Association of North Augusta
Allendale

Allendale County Historical Society
Anderson

Anderson County Historical Society

Anderson County Museum

Anderson Heritage, Inc.
Boonesborough Historical Society

Pendleton District Agricultural Museum

Pendleton District Commission

Pendleton Foundation for Black History & Culture

Pendleton Historic Foundation
REVIVA Historical Society
Williamston Area Historical Commission
Bamberg

Historical Society of Bamberg County
Barnwell

Barnwell County Museum and Historical Board
Blackville Area Historical Society
Beaufort

Beaufort County Historical Society

Bluffton Historical Preservation Society Inc.
  Daufuskie Island Historical Foundation

Heritage Library Foundation, Inc.
Historic Beaufort Foundation
Berkeley
Berkeley County Historical Society

Berkeley Museum
Calhoun
Calhoun County Museum
Charleston

Avery Research Center for African American History
Charleston Library Society 
Christ Church Parish Preservation Society, Inc.
Church Street Historic Foundation

Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society

Historic Charleston Foundation

Preservation Society of Charleston

St. James Santee Parish Historical Society
Cherokee

Cherokee Historical and Preservation Society
Chester

Chester County Historical Society 
  Chester District Historical Society
Chesterfield

Chesterfield County Historic Preservation Commission

Historical Society of Chesterfield County
Historic Cheraw
Clarendon

Clarendon County Historical Society
Colleton

Colleton County Historical and Preservation Society

Colleton Museum
  Slave Relic Museum
Darlington

Darlington County Historical Society

Darlington County Historical Commission
The Hartsville Museum
Dillon

Dillon County Historical Society
Dorchester

Middleton Place Foundation

The Summerville Preservation Society
Edgefield

Edgefield County Historical Society
Oakley Park Museum

Ridge Heritage Association
Fairfield

Fairfield County Historical Society

Fairfield County Museum
Florence

Florence Heritage Foundation
  Florence County Historical Society

Florence Museum of Art, Science and History
Mars Bluff Society
Georgetown

Georgetown County Historical Commission

Kaminski House Museum
  Rice Museum
Greenville

Greenville County Historical Society
Greenville County Historic Preservation Commission

Historic Greenville Foundation
  Simpsonville Historical and Preservation Society
Greenwood
  Cokesbury Historical & Recreation Commission
  Greenwood County Historical Society
  Simpsonville Historical Society
The Museum
Hampton
  Hampton County Historical Society
Horry
  Atlantic Beach Historical Society
  Horry County Museum
Horry County Historical Society
Jasper
  Jasper County Historical Society
Kershaw
  Camden Archives and Museum
  Historic Camden Foundation/Historic Camden Revolutionary War
  Kershaw County Historical Society
Lancaster
  Lancaster County Historical Commission
Lancaster County Historic Preservation Society
Laurens

African-American Historical Foundation
Gray Court-Owings Historical Society

Laurens County Historical Commission
Laurens County Historical Society
Lee

Lee County Historical Society
  South Carolina Cotton Museum
Lexington
Cayce Historical Museum

Lake Murray Historical Society

Lexington County Historical Society

Lexington County Museum
Marion

Marion County Historical Society
Marion County Museum
Marlboro

Marlboro County Historic Preservation Commission

Marlborough County Historical Society
McCormick

McCormick County Historical Commission

McCormick County Historical Society
Newberry

Newberry County Historical and Museum Society
Oconee

Oconee Heritage Center
Orangeburg

Orangeburg County Historical Society, Inc.

Orangeburg Historical and Genealogical Society
Pickens

Central Heritage Society

Pickens County Historical Society
Richland

Historic Columbia Foundation
Saluda

Saluda County Historical Society
Spartanburg

Piedmont Historical Society
Preservation Trust of Spartanburg, Inc.

Reidville Historical Society

Spartanburg County Historical Association
Sumter

Sumter County Historical Society

Sumter County Historical Commission

Sumter County Museum
Union
  Union County Historical Society
  Union County Museum
Williamsburg
Three Rivers Historical Society
Williamsburg County Historical Society
Williamsburgh Historical Museum
York

Broad River Basin Historical Society
Clover Historical Society
  Cultural & Heritage Museums
  White Homestead
Historic Rock Hill
  York County Genealogical and Historical Society

Yorkville Historical Society

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