PRESTON BROOKS DINNER
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gpsblake
N 34° 10.508 W 082° 01.389
17S E 405706 N 3782047
historical marker in Ninety Six SC at the visitors center. There is another marker 20 feet west (OLD NINETY SIX)
Waymark Code: WM10Q4
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2006
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Text from the marker
SC
PRESTON BROOKS DINNER
National attention was focused here on Oct. 3, 1856, when some 10,000 people honored Preston S. Brooks, Congressman from this district, with a public dinner in vindication of his assault on Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Senate floor for a speech insulting to this state. The Preston Brooks home was five miles south on Highway 246.
Erected by Ninety Six Chamber of Commerce 1959
Marker Name: PRESTON BROOKS DINNER
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Person
Marker number: SCHM 24-4
County: Greenwood
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