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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB3Z_sampit-methodist-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This church, formally organized in 1839, had its origins in a slave mission begun in 1786 on Gov. Thomas Boone's plantation, 3 miles SE. Rev. P. A. M. Williams became its first minister in 1840. The first Church, a frame building built the same ye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB3W_skirmish-at-sampit-bridge_Georgetown-SC.html
In the early evening about March 20, 1781, the last skirmish between General Marion and Colonel Watson was fought at Sampit Bridge, one-half mile west of this spot. Col. Watson's loss was twenty men killed and a large number wounded; General Mario…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB3V_retreat-rice-plantation_Georgetown-SC.html
In 1711 the Lords Proprietors granted Winyah Barony to Robert Daniel, who sold it to Thomas Smith. By 1787 Retreat had been carved from the 12000-acre grant.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB3S_prince-george-winyah-parish-prince-fredericks-parish_Georgetown-SC.html
Prince George Winyah Parish (1721). Early settlement in this area near the Black River, based primarily on the Indian trade and the production of naval stores, prompted the creation of Prince George Winyah Parish in 1721. When the first Anglican c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAYZ_mount-tabor-church_Georgetown-SC.html
Organized as a result of the preaching of Elder James Singleton, the Mount Tabor congregation was constituted October 21, 1832 and admitted into Welsh Neck Baptist Association the same year. Samuel Hennecy and Uriah Woodard represented Mount Tabor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAYO_washingtons-visit_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
On his southern tour in 1791 President George Washington spent the night of April 28 here at Brookgreen Plantation. He was the guest of its owner, Dr. Henry Collins Flagg, a surgeon in the Revolution, and his wife, the former Rachel Moore Allston.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMARS_birthplace-of-jeremiah-john-snow-china-grove-plantation_Georgetown-SC.html
Birthplace of Jeremiah John Snow. China Grove was the birthplace of the Reverend Jeremiah John Snow (1836-1892), a son of the third James Snow who lived here. He entered the Methodist Conference in 1863, and was a chaplain in the Third Regiment, S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMARR_joseph-alston_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
Joseph Alston (1779-1816) was educated at the College of Charleston and at Princeton. He inherited The Oaks Plantation and in 1801, married Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr. Alston was a member of the S.C. House (1802-12), its speaker for five ye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAQK_washington-allston_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
Washington Allston, "the American Titian," artist and author, was born at Brookgreen, Nov. 5, 1779. He studied in London, Paris, and Venice. He had a studio in London 1811-1818; in Boston 1818-1830; in Cambridge, 1830-1843, where he died, July 9, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAQJ_theodosia-burr-alston_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
Daughter of Aaron Burr and one of the most learned women of her era; wife of Governor Joseph Alston, who is buried west of here, with Aaron Burr Alston, their ten-year-old son; sailed from Georgetown on Dec. 30, 1812 on the schooner Patriot to joi…