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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM497_battery-saxton_Beaufort-SC.html
(Front Text):Battery Saxton, constructed here in 1862, was in the second line of earthworks built by Federal troops occupying Beaufort during the Civil War. Laid out by the 1st New York Engineers with the assistance of black laborers, it held 3 8 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM481_mather-school_Beaufort-SC.html
Shortly after the Civil War, Mather School was founded here by Rachel Crane Mather of Boston. In 1882 the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society assumed support of the venture, operating it as a normal school for black girls. With some chan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45N_zion-chapel-of-ease-and-cemetery_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
A Chapel of St. Luke's Parrish,established May 23, 1767, built ofwood shortly after 1786 under thedirection of Captain John Stoneyand Isaac Fripp, was consecratedin 1833. Members of the Barksdale, Baynard, Chaplin, Davant, Fripp,Kirk, Mathews, Pop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM447_fort-howell-1864_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
An excellent example of the defensive earthworks common to the civil War era, Fort Howell was constructed by Union Forces occupying Hilton Head Island and was one of the final fortifications to be built during the war.The men of the 32nd U.S. Colo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM43O_mitchelville-site_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
In 1862, after Hilton Head's fall to Unionforces in 1861, this town, planned for thearea's former slaves and named for General Ormsby M. Mitchel, began.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZA_fish-hall-plantation_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
This plantation was part of a 1717 Proprietary landgrant of 500 acres to Col. John Barnwell. Later owners included members of the Green, Ellis, and Pope families. Nearby tabby ruins are remains of fire places of slave cabins. Graves of blacks, who…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3YX_pinckney-island_Bluffton-SC.html
Inhabited for some 10,000 years,Pinckney Island was known asEspalanga, Look-out, and Mackey'sprior to about 1775. AlexanderMackey received two Proprietarygrants for land on the islandin 1710. Charles Pinckney later owned the island and willed it i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3GK_beaufort-county-south-carolina_Beaufort-SC.html
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 homes, lands and slaves. Beaufort …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3GJ_thomas-heyward-jr_Beaufort-SC.html
South Carolina1746 - 1809Soldier - StatesmanSigner ofThe Declaration Of Independence
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3GH_first-fort_Beaufort-SC.html
On or near this site in the settlement known as Stuart Town stood the "Tight Watch House" erected in 1683-4. After the destruction of the town by the Spanish in 1686 it was replaced by a fort, approximately 100 feet square defended by "9 Great Gun…
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