Colonel Ephraim Williams, Jr.

On this site in 1755, Colonel Ephraim Williams, Jr. was buried after his death in the battle called "Bloody Morning Scout," a skirmish that opened the Battle of Lake George. Ephraim Williams, Jr. is best known as the Founder of ...

Joseph Smith Monument

Mormon Prophet's Birthplace

Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born near here on December 23, 1805. A visitor's center and a 38½ foot tall monument, considered the world's largest polished granite shaft, commemorates his ...

Jim Connell

Author of “The Red Flag”

which became the anthem of the

International Labour Movement

Born Rathniska, Kilskyre 1852

Died Lewisham, London 1929

Oh, grant me an ownerless corner of earth,

Or pick me a hillock of stones,

Or gather the wind wafted leaves of the trees

To cover ...

St. James Lutheran Church

(Front text)

This church, the first Lutheran congregation in Sumter County, was organized in 1890 as a Home Mission, with six charter members and with Rev. F.W.E. Peschau as its first pastor. The congregation met in area churches, public buildings, ...

John David Pulsipher Home

Circa 1900 / 1901

John Pulsipher purchased the Tent School (Marker #9) and moved it across the street to this location to use as a residence. The following year he built a large adobe brick one-room house with walls three adobes ...

The New Jersey Brigade

Morristown National Historical Park

New Jersey soldiers enlisted early in the Revolution and fought through to the end. The war took them to Canada in the beginning and Yorktown at the end, but most of their service was nearer home.

The brigade ...

Jocassee Town

Jocassee was one of several Cherokee “Lower Towns” in what is now S.C. It was located about 2 mi. E on the Jocassee River and in the Vale of Jocassee, near the modern Jocassee Dam. The town, like other Cherokee ...

Seneca Institute / Seneca Junior College

Marker Front:

Seneca Institute

The Seneca Institute (later Seneca Junior College) educated African American children of this region from 1899 to 1939. It was founded and sponsored by the Seneca River Baptist Association, which in 1898 acquired eight acres here. The first ...

Ervin "Casey" Jones House

Circa 1932

This adobe brick building was built by Deloy Abbott circa 1932. Behind the house was another adobe building used as a chicken coop. Ervin Jones purchased the home in 1941 and lived here until his death. The house was ...

St. James Rosenwald School

Marker Front:

St. James Rosenwald School, which stood here from the late 1920s until the early 1970s, was one of several African-American schools in Horry County funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. Rev. Smart Small, Sr. (1891-1961), assisted ...