Williamsburg
“let Us March On Ballot Boxes”
Kingstree, SC
(Front) On May 8, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Kingstree.
Battle of Kingstree
Kingstree, SC
Somewhere northwest of Kingstree on the night of Aug. 27, 1780, while scouting for Gen. Marion, a South Carolina militia company led by...
Battle of Lower Bridge
Salters, SC
Gen. Francis Marion and his men defeated the British at this place in March 1781.
Benjamin Britton Chandler 1854-1925
ABOUT 2 MI. NW OF ROME CROSSROADS, SC
Active in the Red Shirt campaign which resulted in Gen. Wade Hampton's election as S.C. governor, 1876, Chandler later served as...
Black Mingo-Willtown/Black Mingo Baptist Church
ABOUT 1 MI. N OF RHEMS, SC
BLACK MINGO-WILLTOWN (Front) By 1760, Charles Woodmason had established a store near here, following a 1745 Act of the General Assembly...
Burrows’s Service Station/Cooper’s Country Store
Salters, SC
BURROWS’S SERVICE STATION (Front) This significant cultural and architectural example of a 20th-century country store was built in 1937...
Captain William Henry Mouzon
Nw Of Kingstree, SC
(Front) This was the plantation of Capt. William Henry Mouzon (1741-1807), prominent militia officer in the American Revolution.
Cooper’s Academy/Bethesda Methodist Church
Cades, SC
COOPER’S ACADEMY (Front) Cooper’s Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until...
Early Settlers/Potatoe Ferry
EARLY SETTLERS (Front) Among the first settlers of Williamsburg County, members of the Witherspoon family sailed from Belfast to...
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
ABOUT 3 MI. NE OF HEMINGWAY, SC
This church is said to be the oldest Methodist congregation in present Williamsburg County.
Indiantown Presbyterian Church
ABOUT ½ MI. W OF INDIANTOWN, SC
Organized in 1757 with John James and Robert Wilson as founding elders.
Mcclary Cemetery
Kingstree, SC
(Front) John McClary (1760-1833) established this cemetery about 1789, locating it on high ground near Boggy Swamp.
Mccollum-Murray House
Greeleyville, SC
(Front) This house, with Classical Revival architectural influences, was built ca.
Mt. Zion A.m.e. Church
Andrews, SC
(Front) This church was founded in 1867 on land donated by Moses and Matilda Watson.
Old Muster Ground and Courthouse
Kingstree, SC
This lot was designated the parade ground in the original survey of the town in 1737.
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
Kingstree, SC
(Front) St. Alban’s Episcopal Church has long been the only continuously active Episcopal congregation in Williamsburg County.
Stephen A. Swails House
Kingstree, SC
(Front) Stephen Atkins Swails (1832-1900), U.S. Army officer and state senator, lived in a house on this site 1868-79.
Suttons Methodist Church
Suttons, SC
(Front) This church, founded in 1825, is the second oldest Methodist congregation in Williamsburg County.
Union Presbyterian Church
Salters, SC
(Front) This church was organized in 1857 by members of Williamsburg Presbyterian Church who lived south of Black River and wanted to...
Williamsburg Church
Kingstree, SC
This Presbyterian church was established 1736 by John Witherspoon and other early Scotch-Irish settlers.
Williamsburg High School
Andrews, SC
(Front) The brick school built here in 1935 consolidated ten rural districts between the Santee and Black Rivers into a single district.