Major General Andrew Pickens

1739-1817

This statue of Major General Pickens is built in memory of Ellison Smyth McKissick, Jr., 1925-1998, Korean War veteran and former chief executive officer of Alice Manufacturing Company, Inc. Ellison Smyth McKissick, Jr., enlisted in the United States Marine ...

Benjamin Franklin Booth

1858–1941

Benjamin F. Booth was one of Memphis' earliest and most distinguished African-American lawyers. Starting in 1886, he practiced law for more than 54 years. In 1905, he challenged Tennessee's law authorizing the segregation of black and white passengers on ...

William Bensinger and John R. Porter

In Memory of

[Marker Front]:

In Memory of

William Bensinger and John R. Porter

...who are buried here. They joined the famous Andrews Raid to wreck Confederate supply lines. The raiders captured a locomotive, "The General," at Big Shanty, Georgia, ...

Joseph E. Johnston Memorial

Joseph E. Johnston

1807 ---- 1891

Brigadier General U.S.A.

General C.S.A.

Given command of the Confederate

forces at Dalton, in

1863, he directed the 79 days

campaign to Atlanta, one of the

most memorable in the annals of war

Erected ...

Jefferson Davis

Late on May 8, 1865, Jefferson Davis, with his family and a small escort, camped in Abbeville, unaware that hostile pursuit was close behind. His pursuers, the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry [US], Lt. Col. Henry Harnden, arrived next morning, shortly after ...

Jefferson Davis

President, Confederate States of America, spent the night of April 18, 1865 in house which stood here.

Marker is on Union Street North 0.1 miles north of Cabarrus Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Popularizer of the Banjo

Nearby is buried Joel Walker Sweeney (ca. 1810-1860), the musician who redesigned this African instrument into the modern five-string banjo that is known today. Although slaves apparently added the fifth string to what had been a four-strong instrument, Sweeney popularized ...

County Jail

The county jail in 1865 stood just beyond this marker. Shortly after the war it burned. The jail across the road replaced it in 1870.

Marker can be reached from State Highway 24, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Site of Fort Johnson

Site of

Fort Johnson

In 1776

Prior to the battle of Sullivan's Island

General William Moultrie here raised

The First Flag of Liberty

This building was a unit of the fort.

[Emblem: D.A.R.]

Placed by Rebecca Motte Chapter

Daughters of ...

Black Jack Park

(Main marker):

South of this park are 18 acres of virgin prairie. Purchased 1967 by Douglas County from Russell Hays for a permanent prairie preserve and historic site. Evidence of Santa Fe Trail plainly visible. Original site of D.A.R, marker ...