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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZAB_francis-marion-memorial-highway_Florence-SC.html
Erected in 1971 by the state of South Carolina as a memorial to General Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" whose guerrilla war tactics during American Revolution made him the chief scourge of the British in eastern South Carolina
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX8_florence-national-cemetery_Florence-SC.html
The Florence National Cemetery established in 1865 is this day re-dedicated to the memory of all the patriotic men and women who answered their country's call to service their inspiring contribution will help preserve in the hearts and live…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX4_civil-war-union-burials_Florence-SC.html
(Front):One each side of this marker lie the remains of approximately 2300 Union soldiers who died as prisoners in the Florence Prison Stockade, between September 1864 and February 1865. The Stockade was located across Cemetery Street on Stockade …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX3_florence-stockade-monument_Florence-SC.html
This boulder was placed here by the United Daughters of the Confederacy ofFlorence, S.C. January 27, 1947
To record the fact that directly south of this spotwas situated a stockade where 6,500 Federal prisoners were confined 1864 ~ 1865 and
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPG0_wilson-school-wilson-high-school_Florence-SC.html
Wilson School Wilson School, later Wilson High School, was the first public school in Florence, and stood here from 1866 to 1906. At first a private school for black children, it was established by the New England Branch of the Freedmen's Union Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPFZ_american-legion-post-1-2nd-lieutenant-fred-h-sexton_Florence-SC.html
American Legion Post #1 This post, organized in May 1919 and chartered by national headquarters in June 1919, was the first American Legion post in S.C. Florence County veterans J.D. Smyser, R.B. Fulton, and N.S. Lachicotte represented S.C. at the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYP_jamestown_Florence-SC.html
[Front] This African American community, which flourished here for 70 years, has its origins in a 105-acre tract bought in 1870 by former slave Ervin James (1815-1872). James, determined to own his own farm instead of being dependent on sharecropp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYO_roseville-plantation-slave-and-freedmans-cemetery-clarke-cemetery_Florence-SC.html
Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery This was originally the slave cemetery for Roseville Plantation. Roseville, established about 1771 by the Dewitt family, was later owned by the Brockinton, Bacot, and Clarke families from the 1820…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYN_mt-zion-methodist-church_Florence-SC.html
[Front] This church, founded in 1868 with Rev. James Wesley Johnson as its first minister, held its early services in a brush arbor. In 1870 trustees purchased this 1 ? acre tract to build a "Negro Schoolhouse" sponsored by the church, the first i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOYM_mt-zion-rosenwald-school_Florence-SC.html
[Front] This school, built in 1925, was the first public school for African American students in the Mars Bluff community. One of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, it features a standard two-cla…