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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2N7_robertville_Garnett-SC.html
Named for descendants of Hugnenot minister Pierre Robert, it was the birthplace of Henry Martyn Robert, author of Robert's Rules of Order and of Alexander Lawton, Confederate Quartermaster General. The town was burned by Sherman's army in 1865. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MA_the-battle-of-pocotaligo_Yemassee-SC.html
(Front Side): The Battle of Pocotaligo, the largest action of a three-day expedition intended to disrupt the Charleston & Savannah Railroad, took place nearby on October 22, 1862. With 2000 Confederates under Col. W.S. Walker defending the area b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JJ_gillisonville_Ridgeland-SC.html
Shown on the 1820 Beaufort District map by Vignoles and Ravenel, Gillisonville had a free school by 1831, and a post office in 1840. The seat of Beaufort District from 1840 to 1860, Gillisonville was burned by General William T. Sherman's army on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JI_gillisonville-baptist-church_Ridgeland-SC.html
(Obverse):The Euhaw congregation constituted this ecclesiastical group 24 March 1832, naming it Coosawhatchie Baptist Church. The South Carolina Baptist Convention met at the church in December 1845 and unanimously voted to join the recently forme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2_coosawhatchie_Coosawhatchie-SC.html
(Front Side): Coosawhatchie,dating to the 1740s, was named for the Coosaw Tribe. At first it was little more than a store and inn built on the King's Highway by Henry De Saussure, a Huguenot settler from Purrysburg. By the 1760s, it was a regional…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A1_narrow-gauge-locomotive-no-7_Hardeeville-SC.html
This woodburning steam locomotive with balloon smoke stack, was built by the H. K. Porter Company about 1910. It was used by Argent Lumber Company, a leading area employer established in 1916, to haul timber from forest to mill. In 1960 the locomo…