Selected bibliography of materials

BOOKS & FILES RELATED TO HEWN-TIMBER CABINS
IN ROGERS LIBRARY, FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY

African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina, Amelia Wallace Vernon, Louisiana State University Press, 1993, hard cover; University of South Carolina Press, 1995, paperback.

In Arundel Room, Special Collections, Rogers Library, FMU

F277   F5   v4x   1981. Hewn-Timber Houses #1 and #2 on Francis Marion College Campus, Amelia Wallace Vernon, loose-leaf, typescript.

The notebook is about efforts to get the cabins on the National Register of Historic Places and to understand how to preserve the cabins, covering the period from the 1960s to 1990.

F277.F5 V42 1986x   Before Francis Marion College, Amelia Wallace Vernon, loose-leaf, typescript.

The notebook has photos of some of the people who lived in the hewn-timber houses, a plat of the location of hewn-timber houses, and the best map available of 1941 farm buildings and houses, with an overlay to place the buildings in relation to Francis Marion University campus.

Wallace family papers (Arundel Room)

Archives Box M-20, Gin House Books, ca. 1920s, eleven books.
Records the names of people who ginned cotton at the Mars Bluff gin; for example, Otis Waiters, who lived in a hewn-timber house.

Archives Box M-20, Farm receipts and expenses of Walter Gregg Wallace.
Only a few pages are written on, but one page is excellent. The payroll of May 26-31, 1929, listed 24 people who lived on the farm that is now Francis Marion University. Many of them lived in hewn-timber houses.

Archives Box M-20, Orange spiral 3x5 notebook, with “Buy Bulldog” on the cover.
Only one page is of value, Walter Gregg Wallace’s list of the location of seven houses--obviously the hewn-timber house locations.

FILES THAT ARE IN OFFICE OF LIBBY COOPER

A few files are in the office of Libby Cooper, Vice President for Public & Community Affairs, Francis Marion University, containing records of the value of all donations to the cabins, and 1994 advice by people from the South Carolina State Museum, etc., about the development of the cabins.