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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MA_the-battle-of-pocotaligo_Yemassee-SC.html
(Front Side): The Battle of Pocotaligo, the largest action of a three-day expedition intended to disrupt the Charleston & Savannah Railroad, took place nearby on October 22, 1862. With 2000 Confederates under Col. W.S. Walker defending the area b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2M2_lucile-ellerbe-godbold_Estill-SC.html
1922 Olympic Gold Medal winner Paris, France, while a student at Winthrop College. First woman in South Carolina Athletic Hall Of Fame. Outstanding educator at Columbia College. Daughter of William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold, Estill, South Caro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JJ_gillisonville_Ridgeland-SC.html
Shown on the 1820 Beaufort District map by Vignoles and Ravenel, Gillisonville had a free school by 1831, and a post office in 1840. The seat of Beaufort District from 1840 to 1860, Gillisonville was burned by General William T. Sherman's army on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JI_gillisonville-baptist-church_Ridgeland-SC.html
(Obverse):The Euhaw congregation constituted this ecclesiastical group 24 March 1832, naming it Coosawhatchie Baptist Church. The South Carolina Baptist Convention met at the church in December 1845 and unanimously voted to join the recently forme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AT_the-tuskegee-airman-of-world-war-ii_Walterboro-SC.html
In honor of the Tuskegee Airman, their instructors, and ground support personnel who participated in training for combat at the Walterboro Army Airfield during the Second World War. Because of their heroic action in combat they were called Schw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2_coosawhatchie_Coosawhatchie-SC.html
(Front Side): Coosawhatchie,dating to the 1740s, was named for the Coosaw Tribe. At first it was little more than a store and inn built on the King's Highway by Henry De Saussure, a Huguenot settler from Purrysburg. By the 1760s, it was a regional…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A1_narrow-gauge-locomotive-no-7_Hardeeville-SC.html
This woodburning steam locomotive with balloon smoke stack, was built by the H. K. Porter Company about 1910. It was used by Argent Lumber Company, a leading area employer established in 1916, to haul timber from forest to mill. In 1960 the locomo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A0_anderson-field-walterboro-army-air-field_Walterboro-SC.html
(Anderson Field side):This airfield, the first in Colleton County, was built and dedicated in 1933 on 60 acres leased to the town of Walterboro by the estate of C.C. Anderson, foe whom it was named. By 1937 the town purchased the field and its 3 u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QA_galivants-ferry_Galivants-Ferry-SC.html
Marker front:In 1792 Galivants Ferry was named for Richard Gallevan, owner of ferry rights for Elirsee's Landing on the Little Pee Dee River. The ferry was an important crossing on the road to Conwayborough, the county seat, later renamed Conway. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFW_baron-dekalb_Camden-SC.html
Baron DeKalb mortally wounded on this spot at Battle of Camden, Aug. 16, 1780.