Hornitos Masonic Hall

Point of Historical Interest

This building was constructed C. 1855 of native schist rock. It was purchased in August 1873 by the Freemasons of Hornitos Lodge No. 98, and since early 1875, continue to meet here. The Lodge was originally chartered ...

Presbyterian Church

During the Civil War this church was used by both the North and South as a hospital. Union soldiers stabled horses here and burned pews for firewood. Federal government paid $800 indemnity in 1914.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Anchoring the Union Line

Hazen's Brigade

...thousands of small arms kept up the roar equal to Niagara. Men were swept away by hundreds - trees shrubs and everything was torn up, cut off, or shivered ...

John Magee, corporal, Stanford's Mississippi Light Artillery

Veterans called this blood-soaked ...

Jane McCrea

?

Original burial place of

Jane McCrea

July 28, 1777

Marker is on U.S. 4, on the right when traveling south.

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Huguenot Church

The

French Protestant Church

Huguenot

Organized about 1861

First church built in 1867

This building

the third on this site

was erected in 1845

[National Historic Landmark Plaque]:

Huguenot Church

has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses ...

Bethune Museum-Archives

Mary McLeod Bethume "Council House"

National Historic Site

Designated October 15, 1982

by Act of Congress

Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of sharecroppers. After attending Scotia Seminary in North Carolina ...

Tryon’s Camp

Before and after the

battle of Alamance, the

militia of Governor

William Tryon camped

nearby, along Alamance

Creek, May 13-19, 1771.

Marker is on County Route 62, on the right when traveling north.

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General Thomas Sumter

(Front text)

Monument to General Sumter stands 500 yards south. Born August 14, 1734, in Hanover County, Virginia, he was a frontiersman and Indian fighter. Coming to South Carolina by 1764, he became a planter. As Partisan leader and later ...

Hornitos Masonic Hall No. 98

National Register of Historic Places

This restored Masonic Hall is recognized for the significant community involvement of its members from 1873 to 1930. The Freemasons owned stores and hotels, served as town and county officials, worked as miners and engineers and ...

Military Road

Military Road

from Mount

Independence to

Hubbardton

1777

Marked by Hands

Cove Chapter

D.A.R. 1933

Marker is on Mt. Independence Road, on the right when traveling west.

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