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Goose Creek, SC

(Front) Boochawee Hall, created in 1683 by a 2,400-acre grant, was owned by two colonial governors, father and son.

Hanahan, SC

(Front) Bowen’s Corner, an African-American farming community from the mid-19th century through the late-20th century, was originally...

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) Broom Hall Plantation, later called Bloom Hall and still later Bloomfield, was first granted to Edward Middleton in 1678.

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) This plantation was once part of Boochawee Hall, owned by Governor James Moore (d. 1706).

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) Carnes Crossroads was part of a 3,000 acre royal grant to Joseph Thorowgood in 1682.

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) This African-American community grew up around a Methodist church founded during Reconstruction by a freedman named Casey or Caice.

The main Cherokee Path, which extended from the overhill towns of the Cherokee Indians in present Tennessee to Charleston, passed near here.

Cross, SC

This post office, originally named Cross Mill, was established in 1879.

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) Crowfield Plantation, on the headwaters of Goose Creek, was originally granted to John Berringer in 1701.

Moncks Corner, SC

DIXIE TRAINING SCHOOL (Front) Berkeley Training High School, first called Dixie Training School, stood here from 1920 until the 1980s.

Goose Creek, SC

EARLY INDIAN TRADING PATHS (Front) One of the earliest major trading paths in the Carolina colony, dating from the first decade of...

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) From the 18th century, the State Road from Charleston and the Road to Dorchester met near here.

Moncks Corner, SC

FAIRLAWN PLANTATION (Front) Fairlawn Barony, sometimes called “Fair-Lawn,” was granted to Peter Colleton, whose father John had been one...

Moncks Corner, SC

According to family information, Francis Marion, brigadier general of the S.C. Militia during the American Revolution, was born near here...

Cross, SC

* Location information is approximate.

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) The first bridge here, in use by 1680, had a raised road at either end and was built from split logs with the flat sides up,...

Goose Creek, SC

The Parish St. James was founded by Act of Assembly in 1706.

Goose Creek, SC

GOOSE CREEK (Front) This area has been called Goose Creek since the late 17th century.

Goose Creek, SC

HOWE HALL PLANTATION (Front) Howe Hall Plantation, an inland rice plantation, was established here by Robert Howe, who came to S.C. in 1683.

Goose Creek, SC

HOWE HALL PLANTATION (Front) Howe Hall Plantation was established here by Robert Howe about 1683 and passed to his son Job Howe (d....

St. Stephen, SC

(Front) Lucius Mendel Rivers (1905-1970), state representative 1933-36 and U. S. Representative 1940-70, was born in nearby Gumville and...

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) This inland rice plantation has its origins in a 1683 grant.

John J. Cross (1810-1890) bought 500 acres here in 1844 and soon expanded Moss Grove into one of the most productive cotton plantations...

Goose Creek, SC

MOUNT HOLLY STATION (Front) Mount Holly Station, a depot on the Northeastern Railroad between Florence and Charleston, was built here...

Originally granted to Sir Peter Colleton in 1679.

Huger, SC

(Front) The congregation of New Hope Methodist Church dates to 1837.

Moncks Corner, SC

Here was located the provincial town of Moncks Corner, deriving its name from Thomas Monck, an Englishman, who in 1735 purchased Mitten...

Built 1750-1790 at Otranto Plantation and used to process dye from indigo, an important S.C. crop from 1747 to 1796.

Hanahan, SC

Originally known as "Yeshoe," this plantation was granted in 1679 to Arthur Middleton, greatgranduncle of the signer of the Declaration...

Pinopolis, SC

Plantation owners began this pineland village in the 1830s to escape lowcountry plantation summer nights, thought to cause "country...

Charleston, SC

(Front) Richard Quintyne (d.1695) established a plantation near here and a creek .

Macbeth, SC

(Front) This church grew out of services held as early as 1811, at first in a brush arbor and later at a campground nearby.

Moncks Corner, SC

(1) This canal, twenty-two miles in length, connects the Santee and Cooper Rivers.

Moncks Corner, SC

(Front) This canal, twenty-two miles in length, connects the Santee and Cooper Rivers.

Honey Hill, SC

SKIRMISH AT WAMBAW BRIDGE (Front) On February 24, 1782, at Wambaw Bridge 6 mi. N, a force of British cavalry, regular infantry, and...

Moncks Corner, SC

(Front) Spring Grove, an inland rice plantation on the Back River, was part of a 1706 grant by the Lords Proprietors to John Barnwell.

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) Springfield Plantation, an inland rice plantation, was established here by Paul Mazyck (d. 1749), a planter and merchant who...

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) St. James, Goose Creek was one of the first Anglican parishes in the lowcountry, created by the Church Act of 1706.

ST. JAMES, GOOSE CREEK CHAPEL OF EASE (Front) One of two chapels of ease for St. James, Goose Creek Parish stood here on the road to...

St. Stephen, SC

(Front) St. Stephen High School was the first public white H.S. for the town of St. Stephen.

St. Stephen, SC

ST. STEPHEN COLORED SCHOOL (Front) St. Stephen Colored School, the first public African American school in St. Stephen, was built here in...

Hanahan, SC

(Front) This plantation was established in 1701 by a grant of 500 acres near Goose Creek to Lewis Lansac from the Lords Proprietors.

Moncks Corner, SC

Here in 1863, the Confederate semi-submersible torpedo boat, Little David, first of its type, was constructed.

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) The Oaks, an inland rice plantation, was established here by Edward Middleton (d. 1685) on a 1678 grant from the Lords Proprietors.

Pineville, SC

(Front) Pineville, established in 1793-94, was one of the first planters’ retreats in the South.

Goose Creek, SC

(Front) In April 1715 Yamasee warriors killed government agents and traders who had come to meet with them at Pocotaligo, in present-day...

Cross, SC

The grave of Thomas Walter (c. 1740-1789), pioneer botanist, is 9 mi. W at his Santee River plantation.

Goose Creek, SC

THOROGOOD PLANTATION (Front) In 1682 the Lords Proprietors granted 3,000 acres here, on a branch of the Back River, to Joseph Thorogood...

Moncks Corner, SC

(Front) Varner Town (or Varnertown) is a distinct Native American community including descendants of the Etiwan, Catawba, Cherokee,...

Moncks Corner, SC

Near this point was the SW corner of Wadboo Barony, a 12,000 acre tract about 4 miles square, granted in 1683 to James Colleton, son of...

Jedburg, SC

(Front) Wassamassaw, with several variant spellings during the colonial era, is a Native American word thought to mean “connecting water.

Goose Creek, SC

FRENCH HUGUENOT PLANTATION (Front) Abraham Fleury, sometimes called Abraham Fleury Sieur De La Plaine, settled here about 1680.

North Charleston, SC

(Front) The first plantation here was established in 1731 by Alexander Vanderdussen (d. 1759), British army officer and member of the...