Anderson County Museum Advisory Committee To Honor Two At October Ceremony
(Seneca, SC)—————The Anderson County Museum Advisory Committee has issued a release announcing that they are honoring Lewis Dalton Moorhead and Major Frank Rogers Thompson for contributions they have made to Anderson County and South Carolina.
According to the press release, the two selectees were named from more than 20 applications. Nominees must be deceased at least ten years before they are eligible to be nominated.
Moorhead was known as “Anderson’s Premier Photographer” of the 20th Century and was born in Sandy Springs and raised in Pendleton. He graduated from Clemson College in the 1920’s.
Thompson was born in Concord, NC in 1903 and was a graduate of the Porter Military Academy in Charleston where he earned a Civil and Mechanical Engineering degree. He served in the military in World War II and earned the Bronze Star in 1945. Thompson was also the founder of the Anderson Petroleum Company.
Moorhead and Thompson will be inducted as the 2019 Hall of Fame inductees at a ceremony that is free and open to the public at 5:30pm on October 8th at the Anderson County Museum on East Greenville Street.