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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A8J_cassique-of-the-kiawah_Charleston-SC.html
Seeking a place for establishing a settlement, the first colonists were directed to this site by the Chief of the Kiawah Indians. The friendly Cassique and his people greatly helped the struggling colony.This statue by Willard Hirschcommissioned i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A87_the-citadel-bulldog_Charleston-SC.html
In memory ofMajor Sam M. Savas, Jr., CE, USACitadel 1951Died in Vietnam, 1965
In memory ofLt. Sam M. Savas, III, USNNaval AviatorCitadel 1979Died in the service of his country October, 1985
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A85_star-of-the-west_Charleston-SC.html
In the early dawn of January 9, 1861, the first shot of the War Between the States was fired from Morris Island by Citadel cadets under the command of Major Peter Fayssoux Stevens. The cadets opened fire with 24 pound siege guns on a Federal ship,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7I_battery-jasper_Sullivans-Island-SC.html
Battery Jasper, the primary Endicott System battery on Sullivans Island, was rushed to completion in 1898 when the Spanish-American War began. This massive, reinforced-concrete structure before you was named for Sgt. William Jasper. Revolutionary …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A51_rice-trunk_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
This small replica illustrates how rice trunks were used to flood and drain rice fields. To flood a field, the gate on the river side was raised while the other was lowered. Water flowed into the field through the trunk at high tide. To drain the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A50_lowcountry-waterways_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
During colonial times any trip to Charleston from Snee Farm was by way of tidal creeks and rivers. While today we depend on the automobile and a network of highways and bridges, life was not so convenient for the people of Charles Pinckney's time.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A4V_slave-community_Mt-Pleasant-SC.html
Enslaved Africans once lived and labored at Snee Farm. This site is a remnant of a slave community that extended south, beyond today's park boundary. The structures that once stood here were built of wood with post-in-ground foundations. Outlined …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19X3_remnant-of-horn-work_Charleston-SC.html
Remnant, of Horn Work.
May 1780
Siege of Charleston
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19X2_section-of-parapet-or-upper-portion-of-the-wall_Charleston-SC.html
The parapet included embrasures, or splayed cannon openings, designed to provide additional "lines of fire." Based on the 1739 illustration, each redan was armed with five to seven cannon. This section of brick parapet was pushed into the moat whe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19X0_in-search-of-the-walled-city_Charleston-SC.html
Rediscovering the Old WallThe old city wall remained buried and forgotten until traces of Granville Bastion were discovered at 40 East Bay Street in the 1920s. In the 1960s a portion of the Half Moon Battery was discovered in the basement of the O…