Secession Hill Memorial Park
Historic Abbeville
South Carolina
Sponsored & Owned by
The Southern Cultural Centre, Inc.
Buy a brick for your favorite Confederate
Help the Southern Cultural
Centre provide a permanent monument to our Confederate ancestors by building a
park on Secession Hill, Abbeville, South Carolina. At this location on 22 November 1860, occurred the first
meeting to select delegates for the
South Carolina Secession Convention.
That event ultimately led to the formation of the Confederate States of
America. On this two acre site the
Southern Cultural Centre will build a memorial park to honour all the South
Carolina men who wore the gray and the women who faithfully supported them. In addition to the many monuments that will
be placed in the park dedicated to these men and women, the park will feature
an enclosing 1000 foot by 8 foot “Wall of Honor”
faced on the inside with memorial tiles. Each tile will display one of the
names of the more than 18,000 South Carolina Confederate soldiers who died
during the War. Also to be located in
the park will be Abbeville's first Confederate Monument of 1906. It was damaged by fire in 1991 and replaced
on the Abbeville Square with a new one in 1996. The original monument (in its damaged condition) will be placed
on Secession Hill as a centerpiece of the park.
Whether you are a South
Carolinian or not, we urge you to help construct the “Wall
of Honor” to the S. C. Confederate dead by purchasing a
memorial tile for one of those Southern freedom fighters.
Tiles for the “Wall
of Honor” will contain the names of the South Carolina
Confederate dead. Mr. Randolph
Kirkland's book “Broken Fortunes” will be the
reference source for these brave men.
If you do not have a S. C. Confederate ancestor who died during the War,
you may still help us build the “Wall of Honor”
by purchasing one or more tiles by writing in the appropriate blanks S C
CONFEDERATE DEAD (WALL OF HONOR) and the Southern Cultural Centre will select a
name for you. You will receive a mini-tile
with that name on it.
You may also help finance this
important project by purchasing one or more personalized bricks or pavers that
will be used to form walkways in the park.
You may purchase bricks or pavers with you name, the name(s) of your children,
your Confederate ancestors, your SCV camp, your UDC chapter, your League
chapter, your business, etc. These
names will be laser-engraved into the bricks or pavers. You will receive, at additional cost a
corresponding mini-brick or mini-paver.
They gave
their all that their posterity might live free. We should, we must, we
will remember them.
There is buried on Secession
Hill the body of an unknown Alabama Confederate soldier whose grave will be
properly marked with a hand-carved slate tombstone. This Unknown Soldier will represent, in the park, all of the
Confederate freedom fighters buried in unknown graves across our beloved
Southland. May their souls rest in peace
and may we never forget them.
The Southern Cultural Centre
will also build a museum/gift shop/meeting-lecture room on this historic
site. An amphitheater and outdoor stage
will be located in the park for musicals, plays, speeches, etc.
Any donations in addition to
brick/paver/tile purchases will also be greatly appreciate .
The completion date for the
park will, of necessity, depend upon the financial support received; however, a
two-year goal is anticipated.
“Honor the brave.”
“They knew their rights and dare maintain
them.”
(The above is an inscription on the Abbeville Confederate
Monument.)
The
Southern Cultural Centre reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of
any inscription. If any inscription is
deemed to be inappropriate, a full refund will be made to the purchaser.
Walkway Bricks
4” X 8” X 2 ¼”
The bricks will be used to
construct the walks running throughout the park. The bricks will have three lines with twenty characters per line.
Mini-bricks …
11/2” X 3” X 5/8”
Quantity Cost per brick Total
1 brick $100.00
$100.00
2 bricks $90.00
$180.00
3 bricks plus
$80.00 $ varies
Pavers
8” X 8” X 2 ¼”
The pavers will be used to pave
the walk areas around the various monuments in the park. The pavers will contain six lines with
twenty characters per line.
Mini-paver …
3” X 3” X 5/8”
1 paver $250.00
$250.00
2 pavers $225.00
$450.00
3 pavers plus
$200.00 $ varies
Memorial Tiles
for “Wall of Honor”
4” X 8” X ½”
The memorial tiles will be used
on the “Wall of Honor” and will contain the
names of the South Carolina Confederate dead.
Mini-tile …
11/2” X 3” X 5/8”
1 brick $50.00
$50.00
2 bricks $47.50 $95.00
3 bricks plus
$45.00 $ varies
With the purchase of each
brick/paver/tile you will receive a commemorative mini-paver/brick/tile with
the same information that is on the larger one.
Order Form
Name_______________________________________
Street_______________________________________
City________________________________________
State_________________________Zip____________
Phone(_______)______________________________
E-mail______________________________________
Bricks/Paver Inscription
3 lines for bricks, 6 lines for pavers
20 characters limit per line
Please print clearly!
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Send your checks to the
Southern Cultural Centre
P. O. Box 24803
Columbia, SC CSA29224