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A~'5S2..Z.R~~ M. A~OR SITES Oo py t F THE REVOLUTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA: • 20 Gree nwood.. Battle of Fort Moultrie INTRODUCTION For a state which played such a large role in the American Kettle Creek Revolution , it is remarkable that many people probably never think of South Carolina except in connection with Confederate history . South Carolinians were active in all phases of the Revolution from its beginning in the 1760's, and the Palmetto State claims a larger share of the Revolution 's military history than an y other state . Above all , there is a great deal of living history in the form of historic buildings , battlefields , archeological remains , and fortifications, which offer the visitor a tangible link with the past. This brochure is your invitation to rediscover Am erica 's beginnin gs in South Carolina. Thirty places in South Carolina and four in Georgia are presented * SOUTH CAROLINA WELCOME CENTERS to you here . The war in the Savann ah Rive r area of South Carolina CHARLESTON LAND'S FORD cannot be understood without reference to the course of the HANGING ROCK Revolution in Georgia . The British occupation of that province made MIDDLETON PLACE South Carolina a frontier state and involved large numbers of South DORCHESTER 20 BUFORD MASSACRE Carolina troops in attempting to hold the enemy at the Savannah GOOSE CREEK CHURCH ANDREW JACKSON STATE PARK River or expel them from Georgia . MARION'S TOMB 22 BRATTONSVILLE COLOR KEY EUTAW SPRINGS 23 FISHDAM FORD Your best gu ide to the principal towns and cities , and the primary • The site or some part of it is operated as an historical HAYNE'S TOMB BLACKSTOCK'S Bri er Cree k attracti on. Historical interpretation good to road system , is an official South Carolina State highway map , BEAUFORT KINGS MOUNTAIN excell ent. available at any Welcome Center or Highway Department office . • No extensi ve on-site interpretation, but the site is SHELDON CHURCH COWPENS State secondary roads , which are not shown on the State map , are accessible to visitors and its significance is mainly identified on the highway by small black signs with white lettering. GEORGETOWN MUSGROVE'S MILL se lf-evident. They are numbered in three parts : for example , S·22 ·307 . The only HOPSEWEE WALNUT GROVE Some on-site int erpretation in the form of number you need pay attention to is the last one , which indicates KINGSTREE NINETY SI X monume nts or markers, which fail to do complete that this is se condary road 307 . justi ce to th e historical importance of the site. SNOW'S ISLAND OLD STONE CHURCH . Inadequa te on-site interpretation as of 1974, but SAVANNAH Sava nnah Watch for Liberty Trail directional signs-blue with a white 14 CHERAW th ere are plans to develop the site as an historical attraction. crescent and the word " Liberty ." These are keyed to the numbered FORT WATSON BRIER CREEK site s in th is brochure and will help guide you to them . STATEBURG AUGUSTA This map indicates relative locations of the maJor sites of CAMDEN KETTLE CREEK the American Revolution in South Carolina. Specific (Hours and prices subject to change) directions are given in th e narrattve. Page 1 Other important Revolutionary sites include the Heyward TOMB OF ISAAC HAYNE , a prominent Patriot leader from Wa shington house , St Michael 's Church , and the Powder Magazine . what is now Colleton County , is located off S. C. 64 , two miles north On Sullivan 's Islan d, across the harbor from the city and accessible of Jacksonboro . Hayne was forced to sign the oath of allegiance to by S.C. 703 , is Fort Moultrie , site of the famous 1776 battle in which the British after the fall of Charleston in order to avoid being a British fleet and army were defeated . During the Siege of separated from his sic k wife . When the Briti sh ordered him to bea r Charleston , the American lines were in the vicinity of present arms for the King , he again joined the American force s and wa s sub Charlotte and Vanderhorst Streets , and a relic of the tabby hornwork se quently captured by the enemy . His execution on the gallows by may still be seen in Marion Square . Various battlefields also cover the British in Charleston aroused great indignation in both America the land approaches to the town , among them the sites of Moncks and Europe . To reach the gravesite follow S. C. 64 for two miles Corner , Stono , and Quinby Bridge . north of Jacksonboro and turn right on a dirt road . For more complete information on Charleston , visit the Chamber There is a very interesting road a short di stance north of Hayne 's of Commerce Visitor 's Information Center at 85 Calhoun Street tomb . Follow S. C. 64 for about another 1 1/2 miles and turn right on a dirt road at the Parker 's Ferry historical marker . Watch on your right for the ruins of Pon Pon Chapel , a pre-Revolutionary church MIDDLETON PLACE was the home of Henry Middleton , where John Wesley once preached . A short distance before the road President of the First Continental Congress , and his son Arthur Mid reaches the Edisto River at Parker's Ferry are some impressive dleton , signer of the Declaration of Independence . The plantation earthworks probably dating from the Revolution . In 1782 the Patriots grounds contain America 's oldest landscaped gardens , begun in had an important supply depot at Parker 's Ferry. A battle took place Exchange Building. Charleston 1741 by Henry Middleton . As restored by Middleton de scen dants, Rice Mill. Middleton Place on the causeway leading to the ferry on August 30, 1781 , when Fran these gardens contain the oldest camellias in the new world , planted cis Marion lay in ambush for a detachment of Royal cavalry . • CHARLESTON is the only one of the four largest American in 1783 by French botani st Andre Michaux, and a hillside with GOOSE CREEK CHURCH , the pari sh church of St James, cities existing at the time of the Revolution which the Founding 35 ,000 azaleas . Other points of interest are the Middleton Oak , Goose Creek , is one of the oldest in the state . The present very at Fathers would recognize if they were alive today . A great deal of whose age is estimated at nearly 1000 years ; the butterfly lakes ; the tractive stru'cture dates from before 1719, and is sup posed to have eighteenth-century Charleston still survives alongside histor ic struc rice mill and pond ; and the stableyards , where the visitor can see a been spared by the British during the Revolution because of the tures from later periods , and Charlestonians have permitted no in complete exhibit of 18th and 19th century plantation crafts and ar Br itish Royal arms over the chancel. An exact restoration of the vasions of modern buildings to spoil the historic character of the tifacts , as well as a variety of domestic an imals . The tomb of Arthur arms may still be see n in the interior of the church ; the original was BEAUFORT , the second oldest town in South Carolina , con Middleton is on the ground s near the ruins of the main house , bur city. de stroye d in the earthquake of 1886 . On Sunday , July 15, 1781 , tains many fine old homes , several of which date from before the ned by Union troops in 1865. The still extant south wing of the As one of America 's major ports , Charleston was a center of Wade Hampton made a raid into Goose Creek Parish , surrounding Revolution . The John Mark Verdier house (late 1790's), where house, in recent year s us ed as a private residence , is being restored protest against the Stamp Act and the other Briti sh revenue acts. It the church while services were in progress and making prisoners of Lafayette was entertained in 1825, is owned by the Historic Beaufort to its Revo lu tionary period character. Adults , $2 .50 ; stu dents, $1 .50 ; was the only city in America where one of the East India Company 's so me Loyalists in the co ngregation . To reach Goose Creek Church Foundation. The museum in the Old Arsenal Building feature s two chil dren , $.75. Open 9-5 every day all year . Middleton Place is tea shipments was actually landed ; the Patriots later sold the tea follow U.S . 52 two mile s south of Goose Creek, turn left on S-10 -43 brass trophy cannons captured from the Briti sh in 1779. Open Mon located on S.C. 61 fourteen miles northwest of Charleston and ten and used the proceeds to fight the British. The first great American and proceed about one mile . day -Friday except Wednesday morning 10 -12 , 2-4. Free . St. Helena 's victory of the Revolution was won in Charlesto n Harbor on June 28 , miles southeast of Summerville . Episcopal Church dates from 1724 ; in its churchyard are the graves 1776 . Four year s later the British returned in force and besieged the TOMB OF GENERAL FRANCIS MARION is located at the site of two British officers killed in the Revolution . The Battle of Port city until , on May 12, 1780 , General Be njamin Lincoln surrendered of Belle Isle plantation , which belonged to his brother Gabriel. This Royal Island took place on February 3, 1779 a few miles north of his army of 5500 troops to Sir Henry Clinton . Charle ston remained OLD DORCHESTER STATE PARK is the site of a Revolutionary legendary Amer ican hero , the " Swamp Fox " of the Revolution , waged town .