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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMID1_general-greenes-headquarters_Camden-SC.html
150 yards to the east is where Gen. Nathanael Grenne had the headquarters of the American Army during the Battel of Hodkirk Hill April 25, 1781.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFJJ_african-americans-choose-sides_Camden-SC.html
At the start of the Revolution, South Carolina's slaves numbered over 100,000, compared to 70,000 white inhabitants. Most slaves labored on coastal plantations-only 6,000 lived in the backcountry. Slaves in the Camden area helped to build and fort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFIF_confederate-war-memorial_Camden-SC.html
This Monument is erected by the women of Kershaw County in memory of her brave sons who fell during the Confederate War defending the rights and honor of the South.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFIC_e-h-dibble-store-eugene-h-dibble_Camden-SC.html
E.H. Dibble Store This store, constructed in 1891 on what was then the corner of 6th Avenue (now Broad Street) and DeKalb Street, was the second home of E.H.Dibble and Brothers Grocery, which sold "general merchandise" as well as "heavy and fancy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFHJ_king-haiglar-tower_Camden-SC.html
???King Haiglar is often called the patron saint of Camden. From about 1750 until his murder by hostile Indians in 1763, this noble Catawba chief was a valuable friend to the pioneers of Pine Tree Hill, as Camden was then known.???Some time betwee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFHF_the-british-evacuation_Camden-SC.html
The American capture of Fort Watson on the Santee River on April 23,1781,cut the supply line from Charleston to Camden. Lord Rawdon, commander of the British garrison, admitted that he was"completely dependent...for subsistence, for military store…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFHE_women-in-the-revolution_Camden-SC.html
Women lived difficult lives in the Revolutionary era. They cooked, wove cloth and sewed it into clothing, washed, mended, and raised children. They also usually helped their husbands on the farm or in the family business. The war forced women t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFH7_native-allies_Camden-SC.html
The Catawba Indians befriended and traded with the first English colonists who settled in the interior of South Carolina. In 1763, after a devastating smallpox epidemic, tribal leaders ceded most of their land in exchange for a reservation along t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFH6_the-fortified-post_Camden-SC.html
The first fortifications at Camden were constructed in March and April, 1780, to protect the town's powder magazine from surprise attack by Loyalists. When British forces under Lord Cornwallis occupied the town on June 1, they strengthened the mag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFH3_citizen-soldiers_Camden-SC.html
In colonial America, all able-bodied men from teenagers to sixty-year-olds served in the militia, a local force that turned out for military service in times of emergency. Official training sessions, or musters, were held once or twice per year in…
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