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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML5I_joseph-hayne-rainey-park_Georgetown-SC.html
This park was dedicated in 1993 to the memory of Georgetown native Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Born to slave parents in 1832, Rainey escaped to Bermuda when the War Between the Sta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML4P_city-of-georgetown_Georgetown-SC.html
September 17, 2005, the City of Georgetown, South Carolina celebrated two events: The Tricentennial of the first King's Grant in present Georgetown County on September 15, 1705, and the Bicentennial of Georgetown's incorporation in 1805. The grant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKB9_24-pound-naval-gun_Georgetown-SC.html
Cast by the Hughes Foundry near Havre de Grace, Maryland about 1800. The Defense Act of 1794 authorized 180 similar guns to be manufactured. This gun is one of three known to exist today. Two similar guns are in Savannah, Georgia. This gun is mark…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIFK_prince-fredericks-chapel_Georgetown-SC.html
(Front) The first church on this site, known as Prince Frederick's Chapel, Pee Dee, was built in 1848 on a site donated by the Rev. Hugh Fraser in 1834. Most of its parishioners were rice planters along the Pee Dee River. These ruins are of the se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIBB_chicora-wood_Georgetown-SC.html
(Marker Front)This plantation, with its origins in several grants to John Allson in 1732, 1734, and later, was in the hands of his grandson Benjamin, Jr., of Brookgreen, by 1806. The property passed first to Benjamin's widow Charlotte and then aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI5O_r-f-w-allston-causeway_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
This causeway was built between January 1845 and November 1846 by Robert Francis Withers Allston, who owned a summer residence on Pawleys Island. Known as Governor Allston's bank, it connected the island to the mainland. Allston was a large proper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFL2_francis-marion_Georgetown-SC.html
To the honor and glory of Francis Marion and his men who under extreme hardships did such valued service for the independence of their country in the War of the American Revolution.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEFR_attacks-upon-georgetown_Georgetown-SC.html
On January 24, 1781 Capts. Carnes and Rudolph, by orders from Gen. Marion and Col. Lee, surprised the British garrison at Georgetown and captured Col. Campbell. Upon Gen. Marion's second approach, June 6, 1781, the British evacuated the town. Gen.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB43_all-saints-parish-1767-all-saints-waccamaw_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
Anglican services were held on Waccamaw Neck by 1737, with a chapel built on land purchased from Percival Pawley. All Saints Parish, Waccamaw, created out of Prince George Winyah Parish in 1767, was the third Anglican parish created in present-day…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB40_labruce-lemon-house_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
This house, built on 10 acres of beach land by 1858, was owned by the LaBruce family, who were successful rice planters in this area of All Saints Parish. According to local tradition, two small dwellings on the property were slave cabins. The res…