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“S” is for Shand, Gadsden Edwards

  “S” is for Shand, Gadsden Edwards [1868-1948]. Architect, engineer. After receiving his engineering degree from South Carolina College, he studied architecture in new York. Shand became best known his public and commercial building designs and played a significant role in the early 20th century development of the state’s textile industry. He served as superintendent of construction on the South Carolina State House from 1888-1890. In 1895, he joined the firm of W.B.Smith Whaley & Company, which built textile mills across the state, including such major complexes as Olympia, Granby, and Richland mills in Columbia. Later, Shand and George E. Lafaye formed an architectural firm that designed the Clarendon County Courthouse and the rebuilding of the Columbia College Campus. In 1933, Shand became director of the South Carolina Public Service Commission. Gadsden Edwards Shand also drew the plans for the fashionable Columbia suburb, Shandon. 

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Dr. Walter Edgar has two programs on South Carolina Public Radio: Walter Edgar's Journal, and South Carolina from A to Z. Dr. Edgar received his B.A. degree from Davidson College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1969. After two years in the army (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), he returned to USC as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Archives, assigned to the Papers of Henry Laurens.