Colleton
Battle of Parker’s Ferry
Jacksonboro, SC
Sent to intercept a raid by 540 Hessians, British, and Tories, General Francis Marion with a force of 400 men, on August 30, 1781, set up...
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Jacksonboro, SC
Founded on this site in 1728 by the Reverend Archibald Stobo, Bethel or Pon Pon Church served a large Presbyterian congregation until...
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Walterboro, SC
(Front) This church, originally located at Jacksonboro, was founded in 1728 by Rev. Archibald Stobo (d. 1741), father of the Presbyterian...
Catholic Hill
S Of Walterboro, SC
Settlers from Ireland of the Roman Catholic faith in this area helped form the ecclesiastical territory of Colleton, Beaufort, and...
Colleton County Courthouse
Walterboro, SC
(Front) The original section of this courthouse, completed in 1822 after the county seat moved to Walterborough from Jacksonborough, was...
Colonel John Laurens
Sw Of Green Pond, SC
Col. John Laurens, former aide of Washington and envoy to France, was killed Aug. 27, 1782, near Tar Bluff on Combahee River in one of...
Cross Swamp Methodist Church
Islandton, SC
(Front) Cross Swamp Methodist Church, the first Methodist congregation in upper Colleton County, was founded in 1808.
Edmundsbury
Green Pond, SC
A brick Chapel of Ease for St. Bartholomew's Parish was built here in 1785 in a town laid out in * Proposed location.
General Greene At the Round O
ABOUT 3 MI. W OF COTTAGEVILLE, SC
General Nathanael Greene advanced into the Low Country with the Continental Army under his command and set up headquarters in this...
Hendersonville/Arab the Horse
Hendersonville, SC
HENDERSONVILLE (Front) Settled by 1791 and known as Godfrey Savanna, this area later was the summer home for a colony of Combahee River...
Hickory Valley
Walterboro, SC
Near here in a hickory grove Paul and Jacob Walter built in 1784 summer houses, which formed the nucleus of a summer colony which grew...
Martyr of the Revolution/Hayne Hall
MARTYR OF THE REVOLUTION (Front) When Loyalist soldiers attacked the camp of Col. Isaac Hayne’s S.C. militia about 5 mi. W on July 7,...
Old Jacksonborough First Known As Pon Pon
Jacksonboro, SC
Founded about 1735 on lands granted John Jackson in 1701.
Pon Pon Chapel
Jacksonboro, SC
On Parker's Ferry road one mile northeast of here are the ruins of Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, established in 1725 by an Act of the General...
Salkehatchie Presbyterian Church
Salkehatchie, SC
This was formerly the site of a Presbyterian church organized in 1766 by the Reverend Archibald Simpson, minister from Scotland.
Temple of Sport
Green Pond, SC
On top of this ridge stood a sylvan temple erected before the Revolution by Colonel Barnard Elliott, patriot and sportsman.
Training the Tuskegee Airmen
(Front) Graduates of the Tuskegee Army Flying School, who belonged to the first AfricanAmerican units in the U.S. Army Air Corps, took...
Walterboro Water Tower
Walterboro, SC
(Front) This concrete water tower was built in 1915 as part of a program to improve Walterboro’s water, sewer, and electrical...
Walterborough Academy
Walterboro, SC
Incorporated December 17, 1834, Walterborough Academy was the forerunner of the present city school system.