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Figure 5. Map: Mars Bluff

The hewn-timber cabins were built in the center of Mars Bluff, a farming community that was settled well before the Revolution and became dedicated to cotton production after the cotton gin was invented in 1793.  (Map by Dinah Bervin Kerksieck.)


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Maps courtesy of African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina

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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998. Revised, 2008.

Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), p. 13.