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(plaque 1) Welcome to The Shelter Cove Harbor Community Home Of The World's Largest Figurative Sundial Dedicated August 18, 1983 The sculpture weighs more than a ton, is a twice life sized statue of Neptune, cast in bronze at Johnsons Atel…
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This marker has been erected as a lasting tribute to the following men who envisioned Hilton Head Island as a place where man could commune with Nature and the Forest and all things that dwell therein. These men determined that no "Fayer o…
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(Left column)? 15,000 to 4,000 Years Ago: The ???rising sea level flooded the deep basin???now known as Port Royal Sound. ? 1531: Spanish explorers Francisco???Gordillo and Pedro de Quexos sailed???into Port Royal Sound. Historians???believe the…
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Hilton Head Steamgun was the last of 13 produced - 8 land based and 5 ship borne. The 50 foot long, 15-inch diameter barrel propelled a 7 foot long, dynamite loaded projectile up to 3 .25 miles. Two steam engines powered an electric generator and …
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After the occupation of Hilton Head,a civilian town grew up to serve theneeds of the large Union base andits garrison here. The town boasted a hotel, a theater, 2 newspapers, andnumerous stores, centering along a street, officially Suttlers Row, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMARY_fort-walker_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
Hastily built in 1861 to protect the S.C. coastagainst Union attack, Fort Walker, commandedby Col. William C. Heyward, bore the bruntof the Union attack on November 7, 1861,when after 4½ hours, with only 3 guns leftserviceable and ammunition …
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A decisive battle in the Civil War tookplace here on Nov. 7, 1861, when 18Union warships with about 55 supportingcraft led by Adm. S.E. DuPont bombardedfor 4½ hours the Confederate forcesin Fort Walker on this shore and FortBeauregard on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMARE_two-gallant-gentlemen-from-south-carolina_Hilton-Head-Island-SC.html
To honor the memory of two gallant gentlemanof South Carolina. Thomas Fenwick Drayton;Brigadier-General, C.S.A. and his brotherCommodore Percival Drayton, U.S.N., Captainof U.S.S. Hartford, and later the first Chiefof Naval Operations.The brothers…
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A prominent landmark for marinerssince the voyages of the earlySpanish explorers, this headlandwas known to the English asHilton Head after the voyage in 1663 of Captain William Hiltonwhich led to their firstpermanent settlement in Carolina.By the…
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Completed in 1862, this large earth fortwas designed to defend the great Unionblockade base on Hilton Head againstConfederate land attack. Named afterthe first Union commander here, Gen.Thomas W. Sherman, the fort consistsof two miles of earthwork…
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