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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2P0_antipedo-baptist-church-old-baptist-cemetery_Georgetown-SC.html
Antipedo Baptist Church. In the plan of Georgetown, laid out by 1730, this one acre lot was reserved for Antipedo Baptist by Elisha Screven. A brick building built before the Revolution for the Baptists, Presbyterians, and independents housed the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2OS_clifton-plantation_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
President George Washington on his southern tour traveled southward over this road, April 27-30, 1791. While in this vicinity the day and night of April 29, he was the guest of Captain William Alston on this plantation, Clifton, which was original…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ON_lafayette_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
A lover of liberty, Lafayette left Bordeaux, France, March 26, 1777, "to conquer or perish" in the American cause, and arrived at Benjamin Huger's summer home near here, June 14, 1777, where he spent his first night in America. He rendered eminent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2OL_prospect-hill_Pawleys-Island-SC.html
On his tour south to inspect the defenses of the Atlantic coast, President Monroe reached Prospect Hill, Col. Benjamin Huger's residence, April 21, 1819. During his stay, April 21-24, he was lavishly entertained by his host and by the citizens and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2OI_hot-and-hot-fish-club_Murrells-Inlet-SC.html
Established by and comprised of the planters of All Saints Parish, this social club was dedicated to epicurean pursuits. Although formed before 1816, the organization was probably dissolved during the civil War. Nearby Drunken Jack Island was the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2OB_these-two-cannons_Georgetown-SC.html
These two cannons were formerly mounted in front of the U.S. Naval Reserve Building on Front Street. Originally they were part of the Confederate defense system at Battery White near Georgetown.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2O8_beth-elohim-cemetery_Georgetown-SC.html
This cemetery, established ca. 1772, is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in the state and serves a community which has been significant here since well before the American Revolution. Abraham Cohen and Mordecai Myers, who opened stores in the tow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2O7_robert-stewart-house_Georgetown-SC.html
The Robert Steward House was built between 1740 and 1770 by Robert Stewart (d.1776), planter and militia captain; it was acquired in 1787 by Daniel Tucker (d. 1797), prominent Georgetown merchant. When President George Washington arrived in George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2N7_robertville_Garnett-SC.html
Named for descendants of Hugnenot minister Pierre Robert, it was the birthplace of Henry Martyn Robert, author of Robert's Rules of Order and of Alexander Lawton, Confederate Quartermaster General. The town was burned by Sherman's army in 1865. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MZ_old-pocotaligo-road-march-from-the-sea_Hampton-SC.html
(front): This was a major road in the northern part of old Beaufort District for many years, appearing in Mill's Atlas of 1825. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman used this route from Savannah, Georgia, to North Carolina in February of 1865 with much of his inva…