Beaufort Historic District

(South Carolina)

Beaufort Historic District

has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This Site Possesses National Significance

in Commemorating the History of the

United States of America

1974

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Bay ...

National Historic Landmark-Beaufort Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Beaufort Historic District

This coastal city, the second oldest town in the state, is marked by a distinctive style of Southern architecture, different from that of Savannah and Charleston.

Structures in the district date from the early 18th ...

Beaufort

Second oldest town in South Carolina,

Authorized by the Lords Proprietors,

December 20, 1710,

Chartered January 17, 1711,

Laid out prior to February 16, 1717,

Incorporated by the state,

December 17, 1808

Marker is on Boundary Street (U.S. 21) near Ribaut Road, on the right when ...

Beaufort College

(Text front)

Beaufort College, a college preparatory academy founded in 1795, occupied this Greek Revival building from 1852 to 1861. The school opened in 1084 at Bay and Church Sts. but closed in 1817 after a yellow fever epidemic, reopening in ...

The Baptist Church of Beaufort

Established as a mission of the Euhaw Baptist

Church in 1795, Henry Holcombe, pastor.

With Joseph B. Cook as pastor, the church

was chartered as a Baptist church by the

State of South Carolina on January 27,1804.

At the beginning of the Civil War the ...

Beaufort County South Carolina

Civil War and Forward

1860 -

On November 7,1861 a flotilla of U.S. warships steamed into Port Royal and the "Cotton Kingdom" came to a swift and thunderous end. The planters were forced to flee inland, many never to return, abandoning ...

Beaufort County, South Carolina

Colonial And Revolutionary Period

1711-1860

During the Colonial period the Beaufort district grew and prospered. Rice was produced for export on the mainland, indigo in the sea islands, shipbuilding flourished. The Parish System developed as the political basis and Beaufort competed with ...

Beaufort County, South Carolina

Exploration and Settlement

1520 - 1711

      In 1520 the Spaniard, Francisco Gordillo, sailing from Hispaniola, stopped near Port Royal Sound long enough to call the place Santa Elena. Fourty-two years later, in 1562, Jean Ribaut and his ...

Beaufort Female Benevolent Society

The Society, founded in 1814 to educate and provide relief for destitute children, built this

house in 1895 and leased it for many years, using the income to help the needy. Tenants included the Clover Club, which operated a circulating ...

Beaufort Arsenal

Erected in 1798 and rebuilt in 1852, the Beaufort Arsenal was the home of the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, commissioned in 1802, which had its roots in an earlier company organized in 1776 and served valiantly in the Revolutionary War. The ...