Dicey Langston Statue Project

11/12/2021

So grateful to the SC American Revolution 250 Commission for their donation to our Dicey Langston project. We hope to see Dicey on Main Street in Travelers Rest next year! https://www.southcarolina250.com/about-us/

What is the goal of this fundraiser? To erect a permanent bronze statue honoring a femal… Dicey Langston needs your support for Dicey Langston Statue Project

11/24/2020

So excited to share updated info on Dicey Langston Statue Project in Travelers Rest! We have secured an artist and are moving forward with honoring an amazing woman right here on Main Street in Traveler Rest.

If every Dicey Langston Descendant gave $35 we'd be able to fully fund this project!

We expect to finalize statue design this Spring and send to the foundry with expectations to install by winter 2021.

Join me in spreading the word all all Dicey Langston genealogy pages and on your personal social media feeds!

What is the goal of this fundraiser? To erect a permanent bronze statu… Dicey Langston Project Committee needs your support for Dicey Langston Statue Project

03/28/2019

Interesting read....apparently there was a book written about Dicey’s life, but was lost somehow. Wouldn’t this be an amazing find?

Clipping found in The Laurens Advertiser in Laurens, South Carolina on Oct 4, 1905. Newspaper Article Grave Dicey Langston Springfield

03/28/2019

Interesting article about a South Carolina politician and former lieutenant governor and Dicey descendent.

TRAVELERS REST – Yancey McGill had heard about his famous ancestor buried in Greenville County, but he had never visited her grave or seen the historical monument erected in her honor until Wednesday.

03/21/2019

A wonderful and inspiring article about our project! A must read!

Learn the history of war hero Dicey Langston and her connection to the early history of TR. Help support the fundraising project to create a statue for her.

03/17/2019

A trip to the Family gravesite. Amazing to stand there by Dicey and Thomas’s grave. So grateful that so many wonderful people have given of themselves through the years to maintain this gravesite. It’s up to all of us to honor our history.

03/14/2019

Why are we raising money to build a Dicey Langston statue... ??? Let me tell you about Dicey Langston

Dicey Langston Springfield

Patriot, War Heroine, Spy, Frontier Settler, Entrepreneur, Wife, Mother of 22 and at the time of her death, grandmother and great grandmother more than a 140

Our country, our state and many families, exist because of this extraordinary woman.

In her teen years, she was a spy and patriot in the awful back country war of the American Revolution.

In early adulthood, she married war veteran, Thomas Springfield. Together, thanks to a land grant that was a war veteran benefit from the state, they became one of the first Americans to settle permanently in what became Travelers Rest. Here they live, ran a farm and businesses, including an inn for travelers. Here she died in 1837, after raising 22 children and becoming a founding mother of the area.

We are going to honor her and inspire many in the future with a statue in the small plaza in Travelers Rest, off Main Street and the Swamp Rabbit trail.

But we need your help. We need to raise funds for a life-sized statue of Dicey when she was a teenager.

Will you join us in uniting and inspiring this community for decades to come with this monument?

Please follow the following link to learn more.

www.diceylangstonproject.com

If you would like to donate to this project online, follow this link:

https://www.gofundme.com/dicey-langston-statue-project

03/12/2019

Announcing one of the most exciting projects to honor an amazing woman and you can be a part of it!

Why are we raising money to build a Dicey Langston statue... ??? Let me tell you about Dicey Langston

Dicey Langston Springfield

Patriot, War Heroine, Spy, Frontier Settler, Entrepreneur, Wife, Mother of 22 and at the time of her death, grandmother and great grandmother more than a 140

Our country, our state and many families, exist because of this extraordinary woman.

In her teen years, she was a spy and patriot in the awful back country war of the American Revolution.

In early adulthood, she married war veteran, Thomas Springfield. Together, thanks to a land grant that was a war veteran benefit from the state, they became one of the first Americans to settle permanently in what became Travelers Rest. Here they live, ran a farm and businesses, including an inn for travelers. Here she died in 1837, after raising 22 children and becoming a founding mother of the area.

We are going to honor her and inspire many in the future with a statue in the small plaza in Travelers Rest, off Main Street and the Swamp Rabbit trail.

But we need your help. We need to raise funds for a life-sized statue of Dicey when she was a teenager.

Will you join us in uniting and inspiring this community for decades to come with this monument?

Please follow the following link to learn more.

www.diceylangstonproject.com

03/06/2019

Dicey is still making history.....breaking the bronze ceiling! Thanks for contributing to the GoFundMe. This will not happen without your support as well.

Kanishka Karunaratne jogs regularly in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and until recently she never paid much attention to its monuments. Then she heard an...

03/04/2019

Where are the women? The same holds true for every state in our nation.

Only a handful of the country's sculptures honor women

10/16/2018

I am so proud to Announce our Dicey Langston Statue Project! GoFundMe has been setup and the major fundraising project is underway.
If you are a Dicey Langston descendent, I challenge each and every one of you to make at least a $35.00 donation but would love to see you give more if you can. Dicey's roots run deep in the Travelers Rest and surrounding areas. If all of her descendants donated $35, we could fund this entire project! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! SHARE THIS AS WE NEED EVERYONE TO NETWORK THIS. We can make this happen with everyones help!! Thanks to everyone in advance.

What is the goal of this fundraiser? To erect a permanent bronze statue honoring a female Revolutionary War patriot and hometown hero from Travelers Rest, SC. Who Is Dicey Langston? About 200 years ago, a young girl was about 15 years old at the time. She was born near what is now Clinton and...

09/01/2018