Jasper

(Front) During this battle of Nov. 30, 1864, Confederate commander Charles J. Colcock, by ordering that a nearby field of grass be set...

Pocotaligo, SC

(Front) The Battle of Pocotaligo, the largest action of a three-day expedition intended to disrupt the Charleston & Savannah Railroad,...

Grahamville, SC

(Front) This Episcopal church was a chapel of ease in the Parish of St. Luke for a number of years before it became a separate...

Ridgeland, SC

(Front) Clementa Carlos Pinckney (1973-2015) answered the call to preach at the age of 13 here at St. John AME Church and received his...

Coosawhatchie, SC

(Front) Coosawhatchie, dating to the 1740s, was named for the Coosaw tribe.

Hardeeville, SC

Cummingsville Cemetery dates to the 1870s when a group of freedmen formed the Cummingsville Society and purchased 10 acres for a cemetery.

(Front) Established on Edisto Island about 1686 by Scotch dissenters, this is the second oldest Baptist organization in the South.

Point South, SC

FIGHTING NEAR COOSAWHATCHIE (Front) On October 22, 1862, in running encounters near Coosawhatchie, Frampton's Plantation, and Pocotaligo,...

Gillisonville, SC

Shown on the 1820 Beaufort District map by Vignoles and Ravenel, Gillisonville had a free school by 1831, and a post office in 1840.

Gillisonville, SC

(Front) The Euhaw congregation constituted this ecclesiastical group 24 March 1832, naming it Coosawhatchie Baptist Church.

Grahamville, SC

(Front) This summer village, established about 1800 by the rice planters of St. Luke's Parish, was a thriving settlement in what was...

Grays, SC

(Front) This school, built in 1927 and rebuilt in 1931, was one of many constructed in the late 1920s, as small rural one- or two-room...

Ridgeland, SC

(Front) This church, organized October 12, 1845, was the result of a clash in doctrines at nearby Sardis Baptist Church.

Ridgeland, SC

JASPER COUNTY (Front) This county was established in 1912 from portions of Beaufort and Hampton counties and named, it is said, for...

Hardeeville, SC

This woodburning steam locomotive with balloon smoke stack, was built by the H. K. Porter Company about 1910.

Grays, SC

(Front) This church was organized in 1870 by Revs.

Grays, SC

(Front) This church, organized on January 6, 1872 with Rev. M.H. Shuman as its first minister, held services in members' homes until a...

(Front) In 1730, the British Crown instructed S.C. Governor Robert Johnson to lay out eleven townships to populate and protect the...

Ridgeland, SC

(Front) Ridgeland, named for its location on the ridge between Charleston and Savannah, has been the seat of Jasper County since the...

Ridgeland, SC

(Front) This church was organized February 28, 1892, by Revs.

Garnett, SC

Named for descendents of Huguenot minister Pierre Robert, it was the birthplace of Henry Martyn Robert, author of Robert's Rules of...

(Front) This church was founded in 1870 with Rev. Plenty Pinckney as its first minister and worshipped in a “bush tent” nearby until a...

Ridgeland, SC

(Front) This church, organized in 1890, is the oldest in Ridgeland, with its origins in several area Methodist congregations before the...

THE FRAMPTON LINES (Front) Remnants of a large earthwork originally more than 100 yards long are still visible south, west, and northwest...

Tillman, SC

By 1820, the road to Two Sisters Ferry intersected the Purrysburg road at this spot, which had become known as Hennis Crossroads by 1848.

Tillman, SC

(Front) This church, formally established in 1883 as Savin Grove Baptist Church, had its origins in a congregation active before the...

Ridgeland, SC

Member of South Carolina Provincial Congress and Council of Safety and of Continental Congress.