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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXN5_fort-howell_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
(Front ) This Civil War fort, named for Gen. Joshua Blackwood Howell (1806-1864), was built by the U.S. Army to defend Hilton Head Island and the nearby freedmen's village of Mitchelville from potential Confederate raids or expeditions. That villa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTLY_st-james-baptist-church_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
This church, founded in 1886 by former members of First African Baptist Church, is one of the oldest surviving institutions remaining from the town of Mitchelville, a freedmen's village established here by the United States Army in 1862. The prese…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRHY_charlie-simmons-sr_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
Before the Island's first bridge, Charlie Simmons, Sr., became known as "Mr. Transportation" amoung the local community, which was made up of descendants of freed slaves following the Civil War.Until the late 1920's sailboats were the primary mean…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQN5_bluffton-united-methodist-church_Bluffton-SC.html
The Methodist Society, organized in Bluffton, built the first church and parsonage on Boundry Street in 1853. During the Civil War, two confederate soldiers saved the church from being burned. In 1875 the church sold the building to the AME Church…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMK5_revolutionary-war-ambush_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
In December 1781, returning from a patrol with the Patriot Militia, Charles Devant was mortally wounded from ambush near here by Captain Martinangel's Royal Militia from Daufuskie Island. He managed to ride his horse to his nearby plantation, Two …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEI_charles-cotesworth-pinckney_Bluffton-SC.html
Born in South Carolina, Pinckney was educated in England and served in the First and Second Provincial Congresses. A commander in the Revolution, he later served in the SC General Assembly, signed the US Constitution, and was adelegate to the SC C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK97_dr-henry-woodward-surgeon-1646-1686_Beaufort-SC.html
Arrived Port Royal (Beaufort) 1666 withRobert Sanford's Expedition exploringthe area. He remained with Indians andlearned their language. Captured by Spanish, he escaped; later returned guiding the Port Royal Colony. On hisadvice the colony moved …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXB_japanese-75mm-field-gun_Beaufort-SC.html
Designated for use with the Japanese Cavalry, the Model 95 Field Gun is a horse-drawn gun with split trails, hydropneumatic recoil mechanism and horizontal sliding wedge type breech mechanism. The 75mm gun weighs 2440 pounds and fires a fourteen p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI9_ruins-of-old-sheldon_Yemassee-SC.html
Ruins of Old SheldonPrince William's Parish ChurchBuilt 1745-55. Burned 1779 by British. Rebuilt 1826. Burned1865 by Federal Army. Named forancestral home of the Bull familyin Warwickshire, England.———Annual ServicesSecond Sunday…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHCD_the-baptist-church-of-beaufort_Beaufort-SC.html
Established as a mission of the Euhaw BaptistChurch in 1795, Henry Holcombe, pastor.
With Joseph B. Cook as pastor, the churchwas chartered as a Baptist church by theState of South Carolina on January 27,1804.At the beginning of the Civil War t…