[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 49 (Thursday, April 5, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E559-E560]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               TRIBUTE TO BEECH ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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                         HON. JAMES E. CLYBURN

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, April 4, 2001

  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, on April 28, 2001, in Granville South 
Carolina, the Beech Island Historical Society will host the Fifteenth 
Annual Beech Island Heritage Day Celebration. As in the past, the theme 
of Heritage Day is 315 years of Beech Island history. To illustrate 
that history, the society invites artists and craftsmen to demonstrate 
ancient skills practiced by Native Americans and early American skills 
that settlers brought with them to Beech Island. Re-enactors also 
recreate Beech Island history from Colonial days to the Civil War era.
  The theme of this year's 15th Heritage Day is the history of ``Silver 
Bluff--A Celebrated Place.'' Silver Bluff, located on the South 
Carolina side of the Savannah River about 10 miles from Beech Island, 
was visited in the 1500's-1700's by Spanish and English explorers and 
was the site of Irishman George

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Galphin's trading post and plantation and British Fort Dreadnought, 
which was recaptured by revolutionary forces under Lieutenant Colonel 
Henry ``Light Horse Harry'' Lee in 1781.
  This year's Heritage Day will feature a wide variety of Colonial and 
Early American craftsmen demonstrating traditional, but almost 
forgotten skills, such as: molding pewter, gunsmithing, hand sewing, 
blacksmithing, spinning, quilting, basket weaving and chair caning. Mr. 
Speaker, please join me and my colleagues in congratulating the Beech 
Island Historical Society for hosting this wonderful event.

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