Christ Church came to be largely as a result of Vardry McBee, known as the “Father of Greenville,” a businessman who created downtown Greenville when he built a number of mills and business in the city. McBee gave land for the creation of the first…

Though there had been a Jewish population within Greenville dating back to 1790s, they did not congregate together for worship in great numbers until 1910. This was the result of the rise of working-class Jewish immigrants to the Greenville area, and…

Construction of the Old Stone Church began in 1797 by a group of local Hopewell Presbyterians after their original meeting hall burned down in the 1790s. While it is uncertain as to why the church was constructed out of stone, potential…

Hardin Hall was built in 1890 and named after Mark Bernard Hardin who was Clemson's first Chemistry professor and acted as President in 1897, 1899, and 1902. While Mark Hardin was Clemson's first Chemistry professor he was also a major in the…

Cooper Library was built in 1966 and dedicated and renamed in October of that same year. It was named after Robert Muldrow Cooper who was a member of the Board of Trustees for 44 years and served as president for 15 years. During the building of the…

Riggs Hall was built in 1928 and named after Walter Meritt Riggs who was a professor of engineering and President of Clemson University from 1910 to 1924 when he died. It has served as a home for the Department of Electrical and Computer…

The Counterculture of the 1960's and 1970's often focused on antiwar sentiments and was directed at U.S. military action in Vietnam. However, a niche aspect of Clemson's culture that was affected by the social change was the concept of the Rat…

Published on July 31, 1970, an issue of The Tiger newspaper focused on student's reactions to Kent State and the liberal campus movements pushing social change. It reflected on Clemson's past as a military school and its future as a new kind of…

The 1960's and 1970's were a tumultuous period of social change in America. Especially on college campuses, there was a great movement by young people to change the injustices they saw in society and live more freely. For many, this meant a staunch…

Mac Arnold is a legendary blues musician who has gone relatively unrecognized given his important contributions to music history. Throughout his career, he has played with James Brown, the Muddy Waters Band, Otis Spann, John Lee Hooker, and countless…