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Hungry? These five Aiken County barbecue joints will make your mouth water.

Sep 29, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

Perhaps no other food group inspires more debate than barbecue. No matter your preference — and there are many varieties to choose from — there is something that will please your palate. Check out these five barbecue restaurants that are well known in Aiken County and beyond. After a fire in June 2022, Dukes Bar-B-Q reopened in a brand-new building in January 2024.
Do you know these local celebrities? Here's five personalities that have called Aiken County home.

Sep 28, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

With a history that's more than two centuries old, the Aiken County area has been home to many notable individuals. Here are five who brought acclaim in different fields. Eulalie Chafee Salley championed and was a leader in the suffrage movement in the early 20th century, campaigning for the right for women to vote. Around 1912, Salley and five other women organized the Aiken County Equal Suffrage League. To fund her work, Salley applied for a real estate license in 1915.
Discover Aiken: These men built Aiken County

Sep 25, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

Many people contributed to the development and growth of Aiken County through the years, but these five individuals played special roles. In his youth, William Gregg worked as a watchmaker and silversmith, but it was cotton that made him a textile manufacturing pioneer and established his legacy in Aiken County. Born in 1800 in Virginia, Gregg was apprenticed to a watchmaker and silversmith in Kentucky, in 1814.
Discover Aiken: These men built Aiken County

Sep 24, 2024 | aikenstandard.com | Larry Wood

Many people contributed to the development and growth of Aiken County through the years, but these five individuals played special roles. In his youth, William Gregg worked as a watchmaker and silversmith, but it was cotton that made him a textile manufacturing pioneer and established his legacy in Aiken County. Born in 1800 in Virginia, Gregg was apprenticed to a watchmaker and silversmith in Kentucky, in 1814.
Who were the men that helped build Aiken County? We took a deeper dive into their history.

Sep 24, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

Many people contributed to the development and growth of Aiken County through the years, but these five individuals played special roles. In his youth, William Gregg worked as a watchmaker and silversmith, but it was cotton that made him a textile manufacturing pioneer and established his legacy in Aiken County. Born in 1800 in Virginia, Gregg was apprenticed to a watchmaker and silversmith in Kentucky, in 1814.
We Are Aiken County: Highland Park Hotel was Aiken’s ‘first grand hotel’

Mar 6, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

Editor's note: We Are Aiken County is a series of articles that will run through March 16. It celebrates people, places and events that shaped Aiken County. Aiken gained fame as a winter resort and an equestrian’s and sports lover’s paradise in the early 20th century. But just a few years earlier, the young city, blessed with towering pines, sandy soil and a mild winter climate, attracted visitors for another reason: health.
‘Dear Santa’ is letter-perfect comedy for the holidays

Dec 8, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

If Brent Cline is right, the fun the cast of “Dear Santa” is having rehearsing the holiday play could be contagious. “If we can fully share the fun we’re having acting together with the audience, it’ll be a really joyful way to celebrate the holiday season,” said Cline, who plays Santa Claus in the Aiken Community Theatre’s production of the Christmas comedy. “This amazing cast and crew has been way more fun than I would’ve ever imagined.
Arts community thrives in Aiken

Sep 29, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

From art to theater to music, Aiken’s many arts organizations offer residents a full palette of opportunities to take in a show, act in a play, attend a concert or create art of their own. Aiken Center for the ArtsThe Aiken Center for the Arts offers residents opportunities to explore their creativity through art and music classes, lectures, exhibits and workshops.
Big woods and big pond - Aiken County has both

Sep 29, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

From hiking through one of America’s largest urban forests to gazing at the stars to going retro for a night at the drive-in, Aiken County offers residents and visitors unique opportunities for recreation, education and entertainment. Hitchcock WoodsEncompassing more than 2,000 acres of undeveloped woodlands, Hitchcock Woods in the heart of Aiken is one of the largest urban forests in America.
Long before its founding, Aiken County has been a community of faith

Sep 29, 2023 | postandcourier.com | Larry Wood

Long before its founding in 1871, Aiken County has been a community of faith. Its many churches and religious organizations are intertwined with the county’s and its communities’ histories, dating to before the American Revolution. Silver Bluff Missionary Baptist ChurchOne of the most historic churches not only in Aiken County or South Carolina but the United States is in Beech Island in southwest Aiken County.