Beaufort County, South Carolina

Exploration and Settlement

1520 - 1711

      In 1520 the Spaniard, Francisco Gordillo, sailing from Hispaniola, stopped near Port Royal Sound long enough to call the place Santa Elena. Fourty-two years later, in 1562, Jean Ribaut and his ...

Home Becomes Battlefield

The Civil War affected not only the soldiers who fought but the families whose homes and towns became battlefields. Edmund H. Chambers bought this farm in 1848 and lived here with his family until the Civil War. Although Chambers was ...

Union Line of Battle

U.S.A.

Union Line of Battle

Meade's Division.

First Army Corps.

Pennsylvania Reserves.

Evening of September 16, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of Mansfield Avenue and Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the left when traveling east on Mansfield Avenue.

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Texas Tech Dairy Barn

The dairy barn and silo were constructed in 1926-27 and served as a teaching facility for 40 years. The barn was designed by Forth Worth architect W.C. Hedrick with the help of AG Dean A.H. Leidigh and Prof. W.L. Stangel. ...

Stinchcomb Methodist Church

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Stinchcomb Methodist Church was one of the first churches in this section of the state. On Dec. 30, 1794, Middleton Wood granted to Absalom Stinchcomb, John Gatewood and John Ham, the "privilege to erect a meeting house on his land ...

Confederate Line Crossing the Goldsboro Road

Directly in front and to your left, Confederate Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s division, on loan from the Army of Northern Virginia, blocked the old Goldsboro Road (now Harper House Road) to deflect the oncoming Union advance. The division was ...

Jessup's Building

This Property Has Been

Placed On The

National Register

Of Historic Places

By The United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of South Beach Street and East International Speedway Boulevard (U.S. 92), on the right when traveling south on South Beach Street. ...

Fighting South of the Goldsboro Road: The “Bull Pen”

You are looking south of the Goldsboro Road at the area where Union Brig. Gen. James D. Morgan’s division began a defensive position facing Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s division after being deflected by the main Confederate line. These battle-hardened Union ...

Fort Nashborough

The original stockade fronted on the river slightly north of here, covering and area of about two acres. In that enclosure, on May 13, 1780, representatives of this and other settlements met and adopted the Cumberland Compact for the government ...

Second Brigade

First Division - Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps - First Division

Second Brigade

Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames

Col. Andrew L. Harris

17th Conn., 25th, 75th, 107th Ohio Infantry

July 1 Arrived about noon and advanced along the Harrisburg Road. Four companies of the 17th ...