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Patricia Bell

Mrs. Patty Bell

English 4 CP, A-1

9 September 2012

Annotated Bibliography:

History of Downtown Anderson, South Carolina

Badders, Hurley. Anderson County: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach: Donning Pub.,

1983. Print.

This source summarizes the history of Anderson County from its beginnings to the year 2000. Each chapter covers forty years and discusses history in every town within Anderson County. Every page has pictures, sketches, and drawings with several paragraphs explaining each one. Badders’ source spends more time talking about important people within Anderson County than did Watkins’ source. In fact, he says, “This is a glimpse of Anderson County, and the photographs of its people and places tell the true story” (11). As a researcher, it was easy to skip through sections in this book that discussed other towns and focus instead on the city of Anderson. This is the only source that was published outside of the area. Ethridge, Watkins, Vandiver, and Fuller were all published right in Anderson by local publishers.

Badders is thorough in his historical coverage. It was easy to get exact dates, place locations, and people’s names. Because of its exactness and actual pictures, notes from this source will be valuable in creating maps and determining when and where buildings existed. With so many pictures of people, Badders’ book puts more personality into Anderson’s history. Creating artwork for the product will be easier using the pictures in this source.

Ethridge, Ray. Anderson County 1929-1972: A Chronology of Selected News Events and

Historical Highlights. Williamston, SC: The Journal, 2003. Print.

This printed book source was a compilation of selected newspaper articles from early Anderson county newspapers, 1929-1972. The chapters were set up by dates; each chapter covered twenty to fifty years. The author, a staff writer with the Anderson Independent, chose and copied old articles he liked. Unfortunately, this source was not a good one to look at first. The actual dates of the events were not labeled, except in general terms with the chapter dates. Also, since Ethridge randomly chose articles, there was very little continuity regarding major historical events. This book did not start at the beginning, since Anderson was founded in the 1800s. Unlike the source written by Vandiver, this source did have actual photographs of early Anderson. Some of the pictures in here were in no other consulted sources which made this source valuable. Ethridge made an assumption that the reader knew a lot about the history of Anderson already since he referred to locations in very general terms, using landmarks that have long been gone. This source has not been effective in helping establish dates for time lining or specific time period mapping. However, this highlight source did have references to unusual events in Anderson, such as the visit of Amelia Earhart, which will add some interesting points to the presentation.

Fuller, Elizabeth Belser, editor. Anderson County Sketches. Anderson, SC: Anderson

County Tricentennial Committee, 1969. Print.

Fuller herself says her book is incomplete and limited and this is very true. It is

not intended to be a history book, but instead is a joining of history and artist’s renditions

of local buildings and sites. Fuller created this book as a way to capture historic sites that

are quickly disappearing. In fact, two buildings included in the source are no longer there and the

sketches are the only way of knowing what those homes looked like. This book was a gift to the

state of South Carolina to commemorate its 300th birthday. Just like Watkins’ source, Fuller