Congregation of the Dead

On January 27, 1777, Deborah Norris wrote to her friend Sally Wister of a "shocking sight." Large pits are dug in the negroes burying ground (Washington Square), and forty or fifty (soldiers) coffins are put in the same hole.

Throughout ...

The Battle of Harris Farm

Final Battle Around Spotsylvania Court House

From May 8-18, 1864, Union troops battered Gen. Robert E. Lee's lines at Spotsylvania Court House. Unable to defeat the Confederates by direct assault, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant determined to head south, drawing Lee ...

South Carolina's First National Bank

This historic site, home of South Carolina's first nationally charted bank in 1873, has served as the cornerstone of the spirit of community banking in Greenville ever since. Carolina First Bank is honored to uphold the banking heritage that puts ...

Battery K, Fourth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade, Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery K Fourth U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. Francis W. Seeley Commanding

July 1 Arrived at night and encamped in a field south of the town between the Emmitsburg and Taneytown Roads.

July 2 Went ...

Battle of Stateburg

(Front text)

In April 1865 2,700 Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter left Georgetown in a raid against the railroad lines between Sumter and Camden. After briefly occupying Sumter Potter advanced to Manchester and remained there for ...

Patterson's Westside Bell

This bell was for many years at the honor farm at Frank Raines Park in the Del Puerto Canyon and was returned to Patterson because it was believed to be either the old Las Palmas School bell or the Presbyterian ...

County Longford Great War Memorial

1914 - 1918

[Northeast Face]

To Perpetuate the Memory

of the 284 Gallant Soldiers

of the County Longford

who fell in the Great World War.

This Cross was erected by

the generous subscriptions of

their sorrowing relatives,

comrades and sympathisers.

R. I. P.

[Handwritten note hanging below reads:]

In memory of the ...

Burial Huts at Town Creek

You are standing in a reconstruction of a burial hut built in this location over six hundred years ago. Its size and shape are based on evidence gained through scientific archaeological excavation. The outer walls are made of upright posts ...

Early Indian Trading Paths / The Goose Creek Men

Early Indian Trading Paths

One of the earliest major trading paths in the Carolina colony, dating from the first decade of English settlement 1670-1680, ran nearby. The colonists traded guns and ammunition, cloth, rum, and other goods for furs and ...

Battle of Beech Creek / The Civil War Ends In S.C

(Front text)

Battle of Beech Creek

In April 1865 Confederates formed a defensive line along the high ground above Beech Creek to oppose Brig. Gen. Edward Potter's Federals advancing through Stateburg toward Camden. S.C. militia, the 9th Ky. Mounted Infantry, and ...