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The Americans who fought the Revolutionary War reflected colonial society: an array of backgrounds, ages and skill. Professional soldiers mixed with non-military tradesmen, idealistic Europeans shared battlefields with illiterate farmers, Native A…
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See that flat depression in the ground? That's the surviving imprint of the Great Wagon Road, a route used by thousands of settlers from the 1740s to the early 1800s. The road began in Philadelphia, carrying Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish and Mo…
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(Front Face):To De KalbHere lie the remains of Baron De Kalb, German by birth, but in principle, citizen of the world. (Left Face):He was second in command in the battle fought near Camden, on the 16th August, 1780, between the British and Amer…
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[Front]Mather Academy was founded in 1887 by the New England Southern Conference of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. It succeeded a freedmen's school opened during Reconstruction by Sarah Babcock, who returned to Massac…
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This farm was the boyhood home of John Carl West (b. 1922), governor of South Carolina 1971-75. West, a graduate of the Citadel and the University of S.C., served as an intelligence officer in World War II, as state senator 1955-66, and as lieuten…
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On this site stood the birthplace and boyhood home of Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965), financier, philanthropist, and adviser to presidents. He was instrumental in establishing the Camden Hospital, with opened in 1913, as a tribute to his father, Dr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMID7_camden_Camden-SC.html
This area, first held by Wateree and Catawba Indians, was laid out as Fredericksburg Township in 1733. Here on the Catawba Path the trading town of Pine Tree Hill was settled. In 1769 courts were set up and the town named Camden in honor of Lord C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMID6_camden_Camden-SC.html
This area, first held by Wateree and Catawba Indians, was laid out as Fredericksburg Township in 1733. Here on the Catawba Path the trading town of Pine Tree Hill was settled. In 1769 courts were set up and town named Camden in honor of Lord Camde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMID5_gaol_Camden-SC.html
On this corner stood the gaol, built in 1771 and burned in 1812. During the Revolution the British imprisoned in it many American soldiers and civilians. Among them, after his capture near the Waxhaws, was the boy Andrew Jackson, later seventh Pre…
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Battle of Hobkirk Hill in the Revolutionary War took place on this ridge April 25, 1781. The British Army was commanded by General Lord Rawdon, the Continental Army by General Nathanael Greene.
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