Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Who Were the Creek?

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

The park offers activities designed to commemorate the events that occurred here on March 27, 1814. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend ended the Creek Indian War and added nearly 23 million acres of ...

250th Anniversary of the Bering- Chirikov Expedition

1741-1991

Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Bering-Chirikov Expedition

May the wheel of change forever turn with peace, justice and opportunity

White-McCarthy Lumber and Hardware Company

1914

This single-story commercial building includes a partial basement, wide-open interior spaces, and a tall, carefully detailed, Main Street store front of exposed, buff-colored, pressed brick. The other walls are composed of common red brick. A metal surface covers the flat, ...

Cherokee Boundary (1767)

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In 1766-67 S.C. & N.C. negotiated with the Cherokee to establish a boundary between Indian land to the west and new settlement to the east. This north-south line ran past this point to N.C. and on to Va. In S.C. ...

Shadnor Baptist Church

Organized in 1840 as New Hope Baptist Church; named changed to Shadnor, 1853. The original log structure that stood a short distance N. of present one, was a prominent landmark during the foray of Federal forces to cut the West ...

Bonnell’s Tavern

The first regiment of Minute Men in the colonies formed here in 1775. Built in 1767 on the main road

from New Brunswick to Easton.

Marker is at the intersection of Pittstown Road and Interstate 78, on the right when traveling south ...

Mauk Building

Built in 1925, this is an example of early 20th Century Commercial style. One of three structures in Florence designed by George Mauk of Phoenix. He was an architect movie house mogul, and U.S. marshal. This building was used as ...

647 Bloomfield Avenue

Built in 1912-1913

On this site the Montclair Hook & Ladder company was founded on November 28, 1882. This building was opened in 1904 as the old Fire Department headquarters. It was then enlarged and modified in the classical revival style ...

Hobcaw Shipyards

Shipyards built on Hobcaw Creek included Pritchard’s Shipyard, the largest in colonial South Carolina.

Notable ships launched there were the 180 ton Heart of Oak (1776) and the 200 ton Magna Carta (1770). The South Carolina Navy built and maintained ...

Hobcaw Point Powder Magazine

In 1770, the South Carolina colonial government authorized construction of a powder magazine near the Wando River plantations and Hobcaw Point shipyards. A four-sided earthen embankment with a brick powder magazine and guardhouse stood near here from 1772 to 1783, ...