The Cherokee Path

[Front Side]:

The main trading path to the Cherokee Nation paralleled the route of Highway 11 for several miles at this point. This section of the path was used by travelers going from Keowee, the main Lower Town of the Cherokees, ...

Henry Ford at Richmond Hill

In 1925, Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., a leading American automobile pioneer who perfected the assembly line concept of auto manufacturing, began acquiring large tracts of land on both sides of the nearby Ogeechee River. He sponsored extensive agricultural and ...

Home Becomes Battlefield

The Civil War affected not only the soldiers who fought but the families whose homes and towns became battlefields. Edmund H. Chambers bought this farm in 1848 and lived here with his family until the Civil War. Although Chambers was ...

Swamp Fox at Ox Swamp

During the American Revolution, on Nov. 8, 1780, General Francis Marion and his brigade lured British Colonel Tarleton and his Green Dragoons about 26 miles from Jack's Creek through the swamps to Ox Swamp, less than 1 mile east of ...

Union Line of Battle

U.S.A.

Union Line of Battle

Meade's Division.

First Army Corps.

Pennsylvania Reserves.

Evening of September 16, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of Mansfield Avenue and Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the left when traveling east on Mansfield Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Chattooga Academy

1836

National Register of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (U.S. 27) and Margaret Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Line Crossing the Goldsboro Road

Directly in front and to your left, Confederate Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke’s division, on loan from the Army of Northern Virginia, blocked the old Goldsboro Road (now Harper House Road) to deflect the oncoming Union advance. The division was ...

Oconee Station / Oconee County

Oconee Station

The South Carolina Frontier Experience

Oconee station & the William Richards House

This site was a frontier outpost and a meeting place between European American and Cherokees of this region during the late 1700s. The first building here, known as Oconee ...

Fighting at the Cole Plantation: The “Battle of Acorn Run”

You are looking north of the Goldsboro Road at the site of the former Willis Cole plantation. Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton chose this ground (a mixture of dense vegetation and open fields) as an ideal location for Confederate forces to ...

Thompson's Rifle Battalion:

Capt. John Lowdon's Company

Recruited from nearby points in June 1775, Lowdon's Company was part of the first battalion in the colonies authorized by Congress. Among those who entered Continental service in this company was Timothy Murphy, whose many feats of ...