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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y5_edmundsbury_Green-Pond-SC.html
A brick Chapel of Ease for St. Bartholomew's Parish was built here in 1785 in a town laid out in 1740 and named for Landgrave Edmund Bellinger. The vestry reported the chapel unfit for use in 1786, and in 1810 it fell in ruins. A new chapel was bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y0_battle-of-parkers-ferry_Closter-SC.html
Sent to intercept a raid by 540 Hessians, British, and Tories, General Francis Marion with a force of 400 men on August 30, 1781 set up an ambuscade along this road about 1 mile from the ferry. The enemy advancing along the narrow causeway were su…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4X6_150-years-of-faith-at-st-james-church_Walterboro-SC.html
In tribute to all those who, casting away the shackles of servitude and the humiliation of bondage, accepted the sweet yoke of Christ and the light burden of his teachings in the Holy Catholic Church founded by Jesus upon Simon Peter the Apostle, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4X4_catholic-hill_Walterboro-SC.html
Settlers from Ireland of the Roman Catholic faith in this area helped form the ecclesiastical territory of Colleton, Beaufort, and Barnwell Districts under Bishop John England in 1831. The Church of St. James the Greater was dedicated on this site…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4X2_the-burial-site-of-captain-john-herbert-dent_Haworth-SC.html
This U.S. Naval officer was born in Marylandin 1782 and died at his plantation in St.Bartholomew's Parish, S.C. in 1823. He served as acting captain of the frigate "Constitution" in 1804 during the war with Tripoli, and was senior officer in charg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4X1_bethel-presbyterian-church_Haworth-SC.html
Founded on this site in 1728 by the Reverend Archibald Stobo, Bethel or Pon Pon Church served a large Presbyterian congregation until replaced by Bethel Presbyterian Church in nearby town of Walterboro early in the nineteenth century. The original…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WU_mount-olive-baptist-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This church was founded in 1866 by Rev. James Smalls, its pastor for many years. The congregation, which built its sanctuary here on land owned by the Gospel Harp Society, grew to more than one hundred members by 1903. In 1914 trustees S.B. Belin,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WP_temple-of-sport_Green-Pond-SC.html
On top of this ridge stood a sylvan temple erected before the Revolution by Colonel Barnard Elliott, patriot and sportsman. The structure was supported by columns in the classic manor. The site, a part of Colonel Elliot's plantation "Belleview," a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WK_howard-school_Georgetown-SC.html
After purchasing this land January 1, 1866, Georgetown Colored Academy built a school here. By 1908 the old building ad been torn down and a new school built, its name changed to Howard. The elementary department moved into a new structure on Kami…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WJ_john-and-mary-perry-cleland-house_Georgetown-SC.html
This house, one of Georgetown's earliest, was built ca.?1737 by John and Mary Perry Cleland. Mrs. Cleland inherited the property from her father John Perry, who had been granted a large tract in 1705 including the site of present-day Georgetown. T…