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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3GD_beaufort-county-south-carolina_Beaufort-SC.html
1711-1860During the Colonial period the Beaufort district grew and prospered. Rice was produced for export on the mainland, indigo in the sea islands, shipbuilding flourished. The Parish System developed as the political basis and Beaufort compete…
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1520 - 1711? ? ? In 1520 the Spaniard, Francisco Gordillo, sailing from Hispaniola, stopped near Port Royal Sound long enough to call the place Santa Elena. Fourty-two years later, in 1562, Jean Ribaut and his French Huguenots named the region Por…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3E6_michael-c-riley-schools_Bluffton-SC.html
(Front text):This is the site of two schoolsthat served the black community of southern Beaufort County for most of the twentieth century. Bluffton Graded School, a small frame building constructed about1900, was followed in 1954 by an elementary …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3DM_st-helenas-church_Beaufort-SC.html
(Marker Front):This Episcopal Parish was established by Act of the Assembly June 7, 1712. The first known rector, William Guy, conducted early worship services in homes of settlers. The parish suffered greatly during the 1715 Yemassee Indian attac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3CZ_maxcy-rhett-house-secession-house_Beaufort-SC.html
Maxcy - Rhett HouseThis house was built circa 1810 for Milton Maxcy (1782-1817), who came here from Massachusetts in 1804. Maxcy and his brother Virgil, who founded a school for young men in Beaufort, later taught at Beaufort College. In the 1850'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3CH_sheldon-union-academy_Seabrook-SC.html
(Front):Sheldon Union Academy, later Sheldon School, opened in 1893 on this site and educated the black children of rural Sheldon community for almost fifty years. The original Sheldon Union Academy board, which founded and governed the school fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM39P_beaufort-female-benevolent-society_Beaufort-SC.html
The Society, founded in 1814 to educate and provide relief for destitute children, built this house in 1895 and leased it for many years, using the income to help the needy. Tenants included the Clover Club, which operated a circulating library he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM398_beaufort-arsenal_Beaufort-SC.html
Erected in 1798 and rebuilt in 1852, the Beaufort Arsenal was the home of the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, commissioned in 1802, which had its roots in an earlier company organized in 1776 and served valiantly in the Revolutionary War. The BVA wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM38J_brigadier-general-stephen-elliott-csa_Beaufort-SC.html
Known for acts of bravery and outstanding leadership in the defense of Beaufort. This Memorial is erected by the Stephen Elliot Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy opposite the home in which this chapter was organized.