Abbeville
Abbeville’s Confederate Colonels
Abbeville, SC
AUGUSTUS J. LYTHGOE, 19 S.C. Inf.
Action At Pratt’s Mill/Pratt’s Mill
Due West, SC
ACTION AT PRATT’S MILL (Front) The last action of the Revolution in this part of S.C. was at Pratt’s Mill, a grist mill on the Little...
Birthplace of Calhoun
On this land settled by his father Patrick Calhoun in the 1750s, defended against the Indians in the Cherokee War and the enemies of...
Boonesborough Township (1763)
Donalds, SC
Surveyed in 1762 by Patrick Calhoun and named for Gov. Thomas Boone, this 20,500-acre township was one of four townships laid out west of...
Bowie Family Memorial
Erected by the descendants of Abraham Bowie, who was born in Scotland and settled in Durham Parish, Charles County, Maryland, about 1700...
Broadmouth Baptist Church
Honea Path, SC
(Front) This church, named for nearby Broadmouth Creek, was organized in 1837 with nine charter members.
Burt-Stark House/Jefferson Davis’s Flight
Abbeville, SC
BURT-STARK HOUSE (Front) When Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, left Richmond after its fall in April 1865, he traveled...
Colonial Block House/Fort Pickens
Abbeville, SC
COLONIAL BLOCK HOUSE (Front) A “block house,” a log building with a stone foundation, stood SE on Parker Creek from ca.
Due West
Due West, SC
As early as 1765, the site 6 miles NW-known to the Indians as Yellow Water and where the Keowee Path crossed the Cherokee line-was called...
Long Cane Cemetery
Abbeville, SC
(Front) This cemetery, sometimes called Upper Long Cane Cemetery, dates from 1760.
Lowndesville
Lowndesville, SC
(Front) This town, established in 1823, grew up around a store owned by Matthew Young (18031878), who was also postmaster 1831-43.
Maj. Thomas D. Howie the Major of St. Lô
Abbeville, SC
(Front) Birthplace of Thomas Dry Howie (1908-1944), World War II hero famous as "The Major of St. Lô.
Mcgowan-Barksdale-Bundy House
Abbeville, SC
(Front) This 1888 Queen Anne house was the home of Gen. Samuel McGowan (1819-1897) until his death.
Millwood Home of James Edward Calhoun
Half mile southeast is Millwood, home of James Edward Calhoun, 1796-1898, son of John Ewing and Floride Bonneau Calhoun and...
Mulberry A.m.e. Church
Abbeville, SC
(Front) The formal organization of Mulberry A.M.E. Church dates to c. 1871, but many of the founding members were formerly enslaved...
Patrick Calhoun Family Burial
5.5 miles south of Abbeville is the burial ground of Patrick and Martha Calhoun, parents of John C. Calhoun.
Quay-Wardlaw House
Abbeville, SC
(Front) This house, built ca.
Secession Hill
Abbeville, SC
(Front) On November 22, 1860, a mass meeting on this site was one of the first held in the South after Abraham Lincoln’s election as...
Thomas Chiles Perrin House
Abbeville, SC
(Front) The Greek Revival residence of Thomas Chiles Perrin (1805-1878), prominent Abbeville District lawyer, planter, businessman, and...
Treaty of Dewitt’s Corner
Due West, SC
(Front) In May 1777 a delegation of roughly 600 Cherokees and representatives from South Carolina and Georgia met near this spot to...
Treaty of Lochaber
Abbeville, SC
(Front) In October 1770, the Congress of Lochaber assembled near here at the plantation of Alexander Cameron, who was deputy...