2,130highway markers
46counties
23battlefields
10state historic sites
8quotations from Carolina Quotes
Eras
From before European contact to the present, in the periods the Department of Archives and History files them under.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)182 markersEra of American Revolution (1764-1783)230 markersSouth Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)188 markersAntebellum (1816-1860)436 markersCivil War (1861-1865)123 markersReconstruction (1866-1876)149 markersNew South (1877-1913)352 markersWorld War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)262 markersWorld War II and After (1941-present)201 markers
Themes
The threads that run through the state's story, and every marker that carries them.
Faith and congregationsChurches, meeting houses, missions and the people who led them.519 placesAfrican American historySlavery and freedom, Black schools, churches and towns, Reconstruction, and the civil rights movement.500 placesWork and industryMills, mines, furnaces, farms, fisheries, factories and the people who built them.352 placesSchools and collegesAcademies, colleges, universities and schoolhouses, and the teachers who founded them.322 placesHomes and landmarksHouses, birthplaces and buildings on the National Register.300 placesExploration and settlementExplorers, land grants and boundary lines, and where towns, counties, inns and resorts began.256 placesForts and the armed forcesForts, camps and bases, and South Carolinians in the wars from 1812 to Vietnam.233 placesThe RevolutionBattles, camps, congresses and the people of the war for independence, 1775-1783.194 placesThe Civil WarBattles, raids, regiments, hospitals, prisons and the people of the war, 1861-1865.173 placesCemeteriesChurchyards, family burying grounds and the graves of people the state remembers.107 placesRoads, rivers and railsTrading paths, wagon roads, ferries, canals, railroads, ports and lighthouses.107 placesGovernment and lawGovernors, legislators, judges, courthouses, conventions and constitutions.96 placesNative nationsThe Catawba, Cherokee, Yamasee and the other nations of South Carolina.68 placesWomen's historyWomen who led, wrote, taught, founded and voted, and the schools and causes they built.53 placesSport and recreationBallfields, resorts, parks and the places South Carolina played.35 placesWriters, artists and musiciansNovelists, poets, journalists, painters, architects and musicians.27 placesMedicine and sciencePhysicians, hospitals, naturalists, engineers and scientists.20 places
Drive it
Loops from a landmark in town, solved on real roads and split into days. Every stop opens its own page.
Charleston130 stops · 6.8 hours of drivingBeaufort & the Sea Islands88 stops · 8.5 hours of drivingGeorgetown78 stops · 6.9 hours of drivingConway & the Grand Strand55 stops · 8.6 hours of drivingColumbia213 stops · 6.9 hours of drivingCamden50 stops · 8.3 hours of drivingOrangeburg73 stops · 7.5 hours of drivingAiken97 stops · 7.0 hours of drivingFlorence & the Pee Dee106 stops · 9.9 hours of drivingGreenville93 stops · 6.7 hours of drivingSpartanburg34 stops · 4.0 hours of drivingAbbeville65 stops · 8.5 hours of driving
Counties
All 46, with the markers in each.
Abbeville25Aiken85Allendale20Anderson53Bamberg20Barnwell19Beaufort76Berkeley86Calhoun27Charleston169Cherokee16Chester13Chesterfield26Clarendon29Colleton29Darlington93Dillon19Dorchester39Edgefield24Fairfield23Florence62Georgetown72Greenville104Greenwood29Hampton30Horry36Jasper30Kershaw27Lancaster40Laurens25Lee21Lexington57Marion26Marlboro49McCormick16Newberry29Oconee29Orangeburg57Pickens36Richland230Saluda18Spartanburg45Sumter60Union24Williamsburg30York90