Historical Entity Index

Places

The places that organize the story: Poston and the Great Pee Dee, the older river-locality names, and the migration geography behind the South Carolina family line.

Poston, South Carolina

Historic unincorporated Florence County community; the primary place entity of the site.

Great Pee Dee River

River setting for the older locality and the broader Pee Dee historical landscape.

Ellison / Allison Landing / Poston Landing

Layered place-name and river-access cluster treated together to avoid false separation into unrelated towns.

Marion District, South Carolina

The historical South Carolina district named throughout the family genealogy as the setting in which the early South Carolina Poston branches became established before later Florence County boundaries.

Chester County, Pennsylvania

The principal Pennsylvania setting for the earliest securely documented generations in the South Carolina Poston family narrative.

Octoraro Creek

The Pennsylvania waterway used in the published genealogy to locate the early Poston landholding in Chester County before the family’s southward migration.

Great Philadelphia Wagon Road

The migration corridor used in the published histories to explain the broader route by which many Pennsylvania families, including the Poston family narrative, moved toward the southern interior.

People

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Map

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Source archive

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