Monday, January 26, 2015 beaufortgazette.com Islandpacket.com IN BLUFFTON Work underway on development By MATT McNAB 843-706-8125 A neighborhood of townhouses is expected to rise quickly over the next 18 months east of the Bluffton Promenade, the project's developer said Thursday. Kirk's Bluff Townhomes, at the corner of Goethe Road and Hildebrand Street near Old Town, already has commitments for all 24 lots in its initial phase, developer Jim Moore said at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday. Moore and several others involved in the project took part in the ceremony, held as work on two model townhouses progressed at the southern end of the development. The lots were available for commitments in September and were quickly reserved, Realtor Michelle Moore said. Reservations for the second phase 12 townhouses that have four bedrooms and second-floor offices for professionals fronting Goethe Road will start being accepted in February, she said, and a waiting list has already begun for those 12 lots.
Access to parking and more yard space in close proximity to the Promenade and Old Town helped generate interest in the townhouses, which are between 1,800 and 2,200 square feet, Michelle UNITED Continued from 3A broke out that secession might have been avoided in a nation more closely connected by steel rails. With stronger economic connections, Grant suggests, Northerners might have been less susceptible to shrill abolitionists and Southerners less susceptible to pro-slavery Fire-Eaters calling for secession. "The people on the extremes are going to be somewhat pushed into their corners by the mainstream," Grant said. A convention was held in Knoxville, in 1836 to discuss building the railroad. It was never built for a nurnber of reasons, including a financial panic, the death of the line's chief advocate and opposition by John C.
Calhoun, an ardent slavery supporter. Instead of following the French Broad River to Tennessee, Calhoun wanted a line running along the Savannah River past his South Carolina plantation. Grant's book includes Henry Charles Carey's 1876 recollection of a conversation with Lincoln about railroads in the spring of 1861. Carey, Lincoln's chief economic adviser, recalled asking Lincoln whether he thought secession would have occurred if railroads linked the LAND Continued from 3A Wiser would not say how much the property costs since the college currently is in negotiations. Beaufort County property records list its market value at $208,400.
The college does not have immediate plans for the property, Wiser said, but will likely keep it as a rental home for now, with the option for expansion. While this purchase would remove the property from and reduce the Beaufort County government and school district's tax base, both entities are behind it, citing the critical evangelicals toward 2016 By BILL BARROW The Associated Press ATLANTA Jeb Bush Mitt Romney have gotten much of the attention in these early days of the Republican race for president, but as they court the party's elite donors in private phone calls and meetings, a group of likely candidates to their right are just as eagerly chasing support among Christian evangelicals and social conservatives. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal led a prayer rally that filled the basketball arena at Louisiana State University on Saturday, Called "The Response," organizers billed the event as a national call to pray "for a nation that has not honored God in our success or humbly called on him in our struggles." Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson spoke and attended services this weekend at Houston's Second Baptist Church as part of the mammoth congregation's "If My People" conference, pitched as an effort to "restore the soul of America." Carson also appeared Saturday, along with several other possible candidates that included Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, before a crowd of several hundred devoted social conservatives in lowa, where GOP Rep. Steve King hosted his Freedom Summit. Romney and Bush did not attend. is important, and it tells everybody who either is a believer or a nonbeliever what a POSSIBLE Mitt Jeb Bush Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz Rick candidate's world view is," said the Rev. Gary Moore, senior associate pastor for the Houston church that invited Carson. "Out of their world view comes everything else on every kind of issue." Veteran Republican pollster Whit Ayres, whose clients include Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 candidate, said social conservatives nationally amount to just "20 to 25 percent" of Republican primary voters. But they make up a much larger share of lowa's GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES and Moore said.
The two model townhouses, being built by Lather Construction and Ashley Ingram LIC, are expected to be finished by the end of March. The 12 lots on Goethe Road are slightly different than the 24 lots in the rest of the development, Jim Moore said. Those homes have driveways in the back instead of the front and have larger porches and front yards, he said. "The front yard is the focal point of the outdoor living on those homes," he said. The development, which uses roads laid out for an abandoned nixed -use development called Paulie's Place, finally gives the Greater Bluffton Chamber of Commerce a fellow tenant on Goethe Road.
Aside from two homes near May River Road, the chamber is the only building on that stretch of road, chamber executive director Shellie West Hodges said. She hoped the townhouses would soon lead to the town's beautification project, which has set up benches and lights on May River Road, extending to Goethe Road. "We've been out in 'the Ozarks' for the last several years," she said. "We're so excited to have neighbors." Follow reporter Matt McNab at twitter.com/IPBG Matt. North to the Gulf of Mexico through Alabama and linked Ohio to Charleston.
"No, it would have been entirely impossible," Carey recalled the president saying. Military historian Robert Angevine of Washington, D.C., who wrote "The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in NineteenthCentury America," said that before the war, many proposed railroads were promoted as bringing the nation together. to attract investors and government support. But Angevine said the nation was already drifting apart in the 1830s and while the railroad might have strengthened some economic ties, staving off war is another issue. "Realistically whether it could have actually achieved that, I'm dubious," he said.
Attorney and historian Gordon Rhea of Mount Pleasant, who has written extensively on the 1864 Overland Campaign in 1 which Robert E. Lee first faced Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia, doesn't think railroads would have made a difference averting the war. "In the South slavery was so deeply embedded and the ardor to extend slavery into the new territories wasn't going to change. That was the real fight," he said.
"I don't see how a railroad, even if it would have strengthened some economic ties, was going to change that." role they believe TCL plays in the community. To show their support, both groups wrote letters of approval a new requirement when a state entity wants to buy property. Wiser said he hopes the purchase will be completed by the end of the month. "In this case," the school district's letter of support said, "we believe the long-term benefits to the community of allowing this purchase outweighs the minor reduction to the tax base." Follow reporter Sarah Bowman attwitter.com/IPBG_Sarah and at facebook.com/IPBGSarah. Romney Louisiana Gov.
Dr. Ben Carson Bobby Ji.dal Perry Florida Sen. Mike Huckabee Marco Rubio first-in-the-nation caucuses and "But it's hard to quantify just are significant in South Caroli- where the overlap is, so no canna's first-in-the-South primary didate can afford to be identified a few weeks later. To win the exclusively with one faction." GOP nomination, a candidate This week, former Arkansas must be "at least acceptable" Gov. Mike Huckabee will visit to primary voters who identify North Carolina's First Baptist first as social and religious con- Church of Charlotte.
The tickservatives. eted event, which promises to The Republican Party also draw from neighboring South includes self-identified "cham- Carolina, is built around Huckaber of commerce" Republicans, bee's new book, but his writings national security-foreign affairs in "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy" hawks, tea party fiscal conserva- serve as primer for the ordained tives and libertarians. "There is Baptist minister's politics and obviously overlap," Ayres said. potential campaign. Man who lost hands became sheriff, coroner By KIMBERLEI N.
DAVIS The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg ORANGEBURG Harpin Riggs, who moved to Orangeburg at age 19, lost his right hand in a cotton gin accident in 1876. Then in 1884, he lost his left hand at his planing mill. Determined not to be sidelined, the expert machinist from Harwinton, used a pair of hooks to continue his day-to-day activities, managing several businesses he established throughout Orangeburg DEATHS OBITUARY Alford Cobb Alford Cobb, 59, of Sheldon and brother of Malinda Spicer of Sheldon, died Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at his residence. Arrangements by Marshel's Wright-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
DEATH NOTICE Frank H. Mularz Frank H. Mularz, 73, of Bluffton passed away suddenly on January 3, 2015 at Hilton Head Hospital. Born in Elizabeth, NJ on March 10, 1941, he was the son of the late Theodore and Rose Mularz. He was a veteran of the U.S.
Air Force and served as a Crew Chief on a B52 Bomber during the Cuban Conflict. Frank retired from Hilton Head Island Fire and Rescue where he was a Senior Apparatus Technician at that time. Currently he worked as a security guard at Oldfield Plantation. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus at St. Francis by the Sea Catholic Church, Hilton Head Island.
Surviving are his wife of 50 years, Carol Krill Mularz and his beloved pets, Dixie Lee and Milo. He is also survived by two brothers, Fred of KY and Allen of NJ and several nieces, nephews and Godchildren. In addition to his parents, Frank was predeceased by his sister, Rose Billy and his brother, Theodore. An act of unexpected kindness in Frank's memory would please him. including a wheelwright and blacksmith shop, a cotton gin and a large farm.
Other shops owned by Riggs manufactured and repaired carriages, wagons and farm equipment. From 1869-1872, he held the office of sheriff and at one time served as Orangeburg County coroner. Also to his credit, Riggs built several Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the area and founded the first local volunteer fire department TO SUBMIT The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette extend condolences to those who experience the death of a loved one. OBITUARIES, which are published free of charge, A memorial service will be held at 12:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at Sauls Funeral Home, 90 Simmonsville Road, Bluffton, SC 29910 with visitation one hour prior. Donations in his memory can be made to the Hilton Head Firefighters Association, to the Wounded Warriors Project, or the Hilton Head Humane Society.
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In the 1840s, he purchased an eight-room residence from his older brother, Merritt, later adding eight more rooms to the home on Broughton Street as lodging for seminary students and apprentices at his shops. Riggs was the largest landowner from Russell Street to beyond the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. During the winter, he would butcher hogs and deliver them are about 40 words long. Obituaries should be sent by 6 p.m. Funeral homes should email them to or DEATH NOTICES are to the less fortunate.
Three fires over the course of five years set him back financially and emotionally, but the double-amputee was said to have tenacious motivation. Riggs was married three times and had six children. His son, Walter Riggs, was a professor at Clemson College and went on to serve as its president for 15 years. He also established and coached the first football team there. Harpin Riggs died in 1893 at the age of 76.
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Dianne Joyce Masales 19, 1945 January 26, 2014 Dianne, you have been missed dearly by all of your friends and family but, most of all, by me and the three "little girls." It ha we are still trying to al you. You left us too quickly to tell you how much I love meant to me. I hope that you can over us and remember that I loves miss every day, Love always, Gary and the three "little girls," Cinnamon, Dolly and Brandi.
