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(Tablet One)The Governor of the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts Michael S. Dukakis, anddescendant's of the African-American CivilWar Volunteers of the 54th and 55th InfantryRegiments and the 5th Cavalry Regiment ofMassachusetts, accompanied by distin…
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Born a slave in 1839, Robert Smalls lived to serve as a Congressman of the United States. In 1862 he commandeered and delivered to Union forces the Confederate gunboat Planter, on which he was a crewman. His career as a freedman included service a…
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John Mark Verdier1759-1826Builder Of This House1795-1800General Lafayette Spoke To The PeopleOf Beaufort From This PorticoMarch 18, 1825
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Second oldest town in South Carolina,Authorized by the Lords Proprietors,December 20, 1710,Chartered January 17, 1711,Laid out prior to February 16, 1717, Incorporated by the state,December 17, 1808
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Dedicated in 1971to the memory ofState Highway PatrolmanR.V. Woods (1935-1969)and all otherSouth CarolinaLaw Enforcement Officerswho died while servingin the line of duty
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Tabernacle Church was formed by black members of Beaufort Baptist Church after other members evacuated the area because of Federal occupation in 1861. The church's lecture room was used for services during the war. In 1867 the black congregation b…
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(Text front)Beaufort College, a college preparatory academy founded in 1795, occupied this Greek Revival building from 1852 to 1861. The school opened in 1084 at Bay and Church Sts. but closed in 1817 after a yellow fever epidemic, reopening in 18…
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The 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regimentwas raised from sea island slaves living around Port Royal. Elements of the regiment were formed on HiltonHead in May 1862. In August 1862, the regiment was reorganized near Beaufort at the Smith p…
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(Front Text):Battery Saxton, constructed here in 1862, was in the second line of earthworks built by Federal troops occupying Beaufort during the Civil War. Laid out by the 1st New York Engineers with the assistance of black laborers, it held 3 8 …
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Shortly after the Civil War, Mather School was founded here by Rachel Crane Mather of Boston. In 1882 the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society assumed support of the venture, operating it as a normal school for black girls. With some chan…