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[front]John McClary (1760-1833) established this cemetery about 1789, locating it on high ground near Boggy Swamp. McClary's will, dated 1831, provided for headstones for himself and his three wives: Mary Raphield (1757-1792), Margaret Blackwell (…
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Burrows's Service Station This significant cultural and architectural example of a 20th-century country store was built in 1937 by Theron Burrows (1910-1973) when U.S. Hwy. 521 was finished from Georgetown to Manning. A combination grocery and gas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM63_battle-of-lower-bridge_Kingstree-SC.html
Gen. Francis Marion and his men defeated the British at this place in March 1781. Advancing from the west and finding the bridge on fire, the enemy rushed the nearby ford, but here they were repulsed by troops led by John James, Thomas Potts, and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK19_captain-william-henry-mouzon_Kingstree-SC.html
[Front]:This was the plantation of Capt. William Henry Mouzon (1741-1807), prominent militia officer in the American Revolution. Mouzon, of Huguenot descent, was educated in France as an engineer. He was a lieutenant in the 3rd S.C. Regiment, then…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIL6_st-albans-episcopal-church_Kingstree-SC.html
[Front]:St. Alban's Episcopal Church has long been the only continuously active Episcopal congregation in Williamsburg County. It was founded in 1879 by Carrie Simons (1849-1938), who persuaded Bishop W.W. Howe to help her organize a mission churc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIL3_coopers-academy-bethesda-methodist-church_Lake-City-SC.html
[Front]:Cooper's Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until 1927, and a public school 1927-1958. Founded by Moses Cooper, H.J. Cooper, and Ada E. Martin, it was first called Cooper's Aca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIL2_mt-zion-a-m-e-church_Andrews-SC.html
[Front]:This church was founded in 1867 on land donated by Moses and Matilda Watson. It was the first African American church in the Bloomingvale community and was organized by trustees Orange Bruorton, Augusta Dicker, Sr., Fred Grant, Esau Green,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIL1_stephen-a-swails-house_Kingstree-SC.html
[Front]:Stephen Atkins Swails (1832-1900), U.S. Army officer and state senator, lived in a house on this site 1868-79. Swails, a free black from Pennsylvania, came to S.C. in 1863 as a 1st Sgt. in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers (Colored), the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIL0_williamsburg-church_Kingstree-SC.html
This Presbyterian church was established 1736 by John Witherspoon and other early Scotch-Irish settlers. Originally located about 1 mile east at Williamsburg Cemetery, the congregation moved here to Academy Street in 1890; the present sanctuary wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIKE_indiantown-presbyterian-church_Nesmith-SC.html
Organized in 1757 with John James and Robert Wilson as founding elders. Burned by the British in 1780 as "a sedition shop." Rebuilt after the Revolution. Present building begun in 1830, remodelled in 1919. Major John James, Revolutionary hero, is …