Pinewood Plantation

Front

This plantation was the home of Maj. William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858), planter, merchant, and the founder of Bamberg. Maj. Bamberg, a native of what was then Barnwell District, returned to this area from Georgia in the late 1840s. The town ...

Skirmish at Spring Hill

Gen. Edward E. Potter commanding 2700 Federal troops left Georgetown on April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden. On April 16 after a skirmish with militia under Col. James F. Pressley he camped at Spring Hill ...

Women at Great Lakes

During the astonishing growth of the Navy during World War I, women were, for the first time, accepted into the Navy. These women enlisted into the yeoman rating and were designated with an (F) for female. They served with the ...

200th Anniversary of the United States

1776 1976

In memory of the

200th Anniversary of the

United States as an

Independent Nation

and American Patriots

who fought for the freedoms

we now enjoy

Erected by the Towns of

Graniteville, Vaucluse and

Warrenville

July 4th 1976

Marker is on Marshall Street near Canal Street, on the right when ...

Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation / The Old Kentucky Buria

[Front Text] : "Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation"

Camp No. 3 was located about six miles below Fort Winchester on the north side of the Maumee River. Militiamen from Kentucky, part of the forces led by War of 1812 Brig. Gen. ...

Battle of Blue Savannah

One fourth mile south of this site General Francis Marion defeated a band of Tories under Captain Barfield on August 13, 1780, by feigning retreat and drawing them into a trap.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 501 and South ...

Great Lakes Athletics

Throughout WWI and WWII, athletic opportunities for recruits included swimming, basketball, hockey, water polo, boxing, wrestling and track and field. But, it was in football that Great Lakes achieved national prominence. Among the thousands of recruits streaming through the gates ...

Kilpatrick's Raid

After the failed McCook and Stoneman raids, Union Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman mounted one last effort to cut Atlanta's railroads with his cavalry. Just before dark, August 18, 1864, Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick led 4,500 troupers of the 2nd ...

Early Settlers / Potatoe Ferry

Early Settlers

Among the first settlers of Williamsburg County, members of the Witherspoon family sailed from Belfast to Charleston in 1734, arriving about December 1. With a year's provisions, they embarked on an open-boat voyage. Traveling up the Black River, the ...

Site of United States Courthouse

[In English Translation:]

The United States Courthouse, which stood on this site from 1892 to 1936, was the scene of hundreds of arraignments, hearings and trials during the Mexican Revolution. Some of these legal proceedings involved Magónistas, or radical Liberal Party ...