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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4M0_sergeant-mcdonald_Georgetown-SC.html
Here Sgt. McDonald bayoneted the fleeing Maj. Gainey, following the defeat of the Tories under Major Gainey by the Americans under Col. Peter Horry. This bloody skirmish took place, January, 1781, between the Sampit and the Black River roads.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KM_georgetown_Georgetown-SC.html
Georgetown, the third oldest town in the state, was laid out in 1729 by Elisha Screven on land granted to John and Edward Perrie, Sept. 15, 1705, and deeded by him, Jan. 18, 1734, to George Pawley, William Swinton, and Daniel La Roche, Trustees. I…
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Parish founded 1721. Present church erected about 1750. Aided by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, London. Occupied by British forces during the Revolution.
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Prince George's Parish, Winyah, was created March 10, 1721, and the parish church erected on Black River, 1726, at the present Brown's Ferry. After Prince Frederick's Parish was formed from Prince George's, April 9, 1734, the parish church was ere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4FU_bethel-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first separate black church in Georgetown County. It was established by the Rev. A. T. Carr shortly after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves. The church purchased this property…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45M_kaminski-house-museum_Georgetown-SC.html
Dating back to the 1700s, the Kaminski House contains one of the finest collections in English and American antiques and furnishings in South Carolina. The original structure with beaded clapboard siding was built around 1769 by Paul Trapier, a pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM43N_kaminski-house_Georgetown-SC.html
This house, probably built between 1750 an 1800, was for many years the home of Harold Kaminski (1886-1951), Georgetown County commissioner, mayor 1930-35, and U.S. Navy officer, and his wife Julia Bossard Pyatt (d. 1972). The house was originally…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2P0_antipedo-baptist-church-old-baptist-cemetery_Georgetown-SC.html
Antipedo Baptist Church. In the plan of Georgetown, laid out by 1730, this one acre lot was reserved for Antipedo Baptist by Elisha Screven. A brick building built before the Revolution for the Baptists, Presbyterians, and independents housed the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2OB_these-two-cannons_Georgetown-SC.html
These two cannons were formerly mounted in front of the U.S. Naval Reserve Building on Front Street. Originally they were part of the Confederate defense system at Battery White near Georgetown.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2O8_beth-elohim-cemetery_Georgetown-SC.html
This cemetery, established ca. 1772, is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in the state and serves a community which has been significant here since well before the American Revolution. Abraham Cohen and Mordecai Myers, who opened stores in the tow…