State Historic Site

In 1697, Congregationalist settlers from Dorchester, Massachusetts, founded a town where you now stand. For nearly 100 years, Dorchester prospered as an inland trade center for the region. Trade with Native Americans, the development of rice and indigo as valuable cash crops and infusion of people (slave, planter and merchant) brought Dorchester to an economic peak in the mid 1700s. However, with the frontier shifting further inland, an improved overland road system, amid destruction at the hands of the British during the American Revolution, the town slowly disappeared and was all but abandoned at the close of the 1700s. Today, the South Carolina State Park Service is charged with care and preservation of this historical and archaeological treasure.
Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site Mission Statement
To promote understanding and stewardship of the natural, cultural, and archaeological resources of the colonial riverside village of Dorchester by providing ongoing excavation, research, and public education oppertunities.

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Linking Places and People
Colonial Dorchester
Fort Dorchester
Parish Church of St. George, Dorchester
Colonial Dorchester
The Bell Tower of St. George's
Colonial Dorchester
Dorchester Free School
Old Dorchester
Old White Meeting House and Cemetery

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