Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial

In memory of the

Soldiers and Sailors

of the War of

1861 - 1865

Erected May 30, 1907

under the auspices of

Erie Post No. 311

Department of Kansas

G.A.R.

Marker is on Rooks Road near 135th Road, on the right when traveling north.

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St. Andrews Anglican Church

Beginning in 1828 the Rev. W. Cockran held religious services in the homes of settlers in this area. In 1829 he established a permanent residence at Grand Rapids on the Red River and by 1831 had built a small wooden ...

White House Church

This four acre tract of land with an earlier structure

known as the "White Meeting House" was given to

the Methodist Episcopal Church on October 1, 1790,

by a deed which is said to be the earliest documented

record of Methodism ...

Vineyard School

1891-1957

Education was important to settlers in San Benito County, who would start a school with as few as five pupils, a place to hold class and a teacher. Early schools were placed 'about 5 miles apart' because the students had ...

Hobcaw Shipyards

Shipyards built on Hobcaw Creek included Pritchard’s Shipyard, the largest in colonial South Carolina.

Notable ships launched there were the 180 ton Heart of Oak (1776) and the 200 ton Magna Carta (1770). The South Carolina Navy built and maintained ...

Hillside School War Memorial

1917-1918

Erected May 30, 1924 by Hillside Pupils in honor of all Hillside boys who served in the World War and especially the following who gave their lives

Briggs Kilburn Adams

Alan Trippett Bedell

Harold Bartlett Bradley

Charles Whiting Baker

James H. Booth

Stanley Conyne

James ...

Wells-LaRue House

Built about 1850 by famed pioneer architect Abner Cook, for Waymen Wells, who lived 10 miles north, but needed town house for business and pleasure trips. His grandchildren, the LaRues, moved in to attend school sessions. Third generation now lives ...

St. Ann’s Catholic Church

Congregation formed in 1859. Met in a house on John Street until this church was erected in 1867.

Marker is on Church Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Hobcaw Point Powder Magazine

In 1770, the South Carolina colonial government authorized construction of a powder magazine near the Wando River plantations and Hobcaw Point shipyards. A four-sided earthen embankment with a brick powder magazine and guardhouse stood near here from 1772 to 1783, ...

First Primary School

1878-1879

22 Valley Road

Vernacular/Early Classic Revival Style

This is the second oldest school building still standing in the Township. It was built to meet the needs of a community which almost doubled in population during the 1870's.

Marker is on Valley Road north ...