Abbeville County
25 places on the trail: 25 highway markers.
People of Abbeville County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 01-13Action at Pratt's MillThe last action of the Revolution in this part of S.C. was at Pratt’s Mill, a grist mill on the Little River owned by Jo...
- 01-09Boonesborough Township (1763)Surveyed in 1762 by Patrick Calhoun and named for Gov. Thomas Boone, this 20,500-acre township was one of four townships...
- 01-27Bull Town FortEast of here is the site of the colonial-era Bull Town Fort. Likely built in the 1760s, the fort was one of many small B...
- 01-18Colonial Block HouseA “block house,” a log building with a stone foundation, stood SE on Parker Creek from ca. 1767 to the 1850s. It was bui...
- 01-06Due WestAs early as 1765, the site 6 miles NW-known to the Indians as Yellow Water and where the Keowee Path crossed the Cheroke...
- 01-01Patrick Calhoun Family Burial Ground5.5 miles south of Abbeville is the burial ground of Patrick and Martha Calhoun, parents of John C. Calhoun. Patrick was...
- 01-17Quay-Wardlaw HouseThis house, built ca. 1786, is thought to be the oldest house in Abbeville. It was built as a two-story log building by ...
- 01-19Treaty of LochaberIn October 1770, the Congress of Lochaber assembled near here at the plantation of Alexander Cameron, who was deputy sup...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 01-25AbbevilleAbbeville was founded in 1785 as the seat of newly created Abbeville County. It was then known as Abbeville Courthouse a...
- 01-03Bowie Family MemorialErected by the descendants of Abraham Bowie, who was born in Scotland and settled in Durham Parish, Charles County, Mary...
- 01-21James Kay HouseBuilt in the 1790s by Virginian James Kay, on land granted him by Governor Charles Pinckney in 1792. Kay was a blacksmit...
- 01-22Little Mountain Presbyterian ChurchOrganized by 1789, this congregation first met in a log building on the hill 1/4 mi. E, said to then be known as “God’s ...
- 01-02Millwood Home of James Edward CalhounHalf mile southeast is Millwood, home of James Edward Calhoun, 1796-1898, son of John Ewing and Floride Bonneau Calhoun ...
- 01-26The General's RoadThe General’s Road was an important thoroughfare for Backcountry S.C. residents and travelers during the 19th century. T...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
Civil War (1861-1865)
- 01-04Abbeville's Confederate ColonelsAUGUSTUS J. LYTHGOE, 19 S.C. Inf./Killed Murfreesboro, 1862/J. FOSTER MARSHALL, Orr's Rifles/Killed Second Manassas, 186...
- 01-07Burt-Stark HouseWhen Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, left Richmond after its fall in April 1865, he traveled south, tryin...
- 01-11McGowan-Barksdale-Bundy HouseThis 1888 Queen Anne house was the home of Gen. Samuel McGowan (1819-1897) until his death. McGowan, a lawyer, Confedera...
- 01-14Secession HillOn November 22, 1860, a mass meeting on this site was one of the first held in the South after Abraham Lincoln’s electio...
- 01-10Thomas Chiles Perrin HouseThe Greek Revival residence of Thomas Chiles Perrin (1805 1878), prominent Abbeville District lawyer, planter, businessm...