Solomon Blatt, Sr.

Erected to honor

Solomon Blatt Sr.

who was born in Blackville February 27, 1825

The son of Nathan and Mollie Blatt

A courageous gentleman and statesman who loves Blackville

and all its citizens.

No other Blackville citizen has been honored as has Mr. Blatt

and ...

Destruction of Dunlawton Plantation

In January 1836, during the second Indian War, the Indians burned Dunlawton Plantation. Only the brick walls, the chimneys and the heavy iron machinery were left. The Plantation was not rebuilt until the 1840's.

The war cost the United States ...

Chester Station Fight

At this station, two miles west, the Union army of the James, turning toward Richmond, fought an action on May 10, 1864 and tore up the railroad.

Marker is on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) 0.1 miles south of West Hundred ...

St Matthews Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1870 with

Rev. Plenty Pinckney as its first

minister and worshipped in a "bush

tent" nearby until a log church was

built a few years later. A new frame

church was built on this site in the

1890's during the pastorate ...

Battle of Chester Station

Here, on May 10, 1864, as part of Butler’s Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 3400 Federals and 2000 Confederates fought the Battle of Chester Station. This monument is erected in their memory by the Chester Station Camp #1503. Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Marker ...

Battle of Chester Station

Here, on May 10, 1864, as part of Butler’s Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 3400 Federals and 2000 Confederates fought the Battle of Chester Station. This monument is erected in their memory by the Chester Station Camp #1503. Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Marker ...

General Green At The Round O

General Nathanael Greene advanced into the Low Country with the Continental Army under his command and set up headquarters in this vicinity on the Round O in December 1781 before moving down to protect the General Assembly convened at Jacksonborough ...

The Macdonald-Mowat House

1872

Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, purchased this house in 1876 and lived here 1876-78. It was built in 1872 in the French Second Empire style by Nathaniel Dickey, a Toronto iron founder. Macdonald owned the property until ...

The Great Sea Island Storm

( Front text )

On the night of August 27, 1893, a

huge "tropical cyclone," the largest

and most powerful storm to hit S.C.

until Hurricane Hugo in 1989, made

landfall just E of Savannah, Ga.

With gusts as high as 120 mph and a

storm surge ...

Bennington Battle Field

August 16, 1777

- • • ? American Forces

- ? ? British x ? ? Indians

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Erected by the

State of New York

August 16, 1927

Marker can be reached from New York Route 67, on the left when traveling east.

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