Bamberg County
20 places on the trail: 19 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
People of Bamberg County in Carolina Quotes
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 05-03Mizpah ChurchMethodist Church established by 1832. Present 1856 house of worship is all that remains of pre-Civil War settlement of B...
- 05-12Mountain Home PlantationMountain Home Plantation, named for the hill on which it is located, was established before the Civil War. In 1859 Samue...
- 05-02Mt. Pleasant ChurchIn 1835 St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church moved here from about 1 mile south and changed its name to Mt. Pleasant. It is g...
- 05-14Pinewood PlantationThis plantation was the home of Maj. William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858), planter, merchant, and the founder of Bamberg....
- 05-13Salem Methodist ChurchThis church, founded by 1818, held its early services in a brush arbor; the first permanent sanctuary was built nearby. ...
- 05-11South Carolina Canal & Railroad CompanyBegan first successful scheduled steam railroad service in America on December 25, 1830, and by 1833 its 136 miles from ...
- 05-05St. John's Baptist ChurchThis church, established 1829 30, was first named Three Mile Creek Church and held early services in a brush arbor 4 mi....
- 05-10WoodlandsWoodlands was the country home of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the most prominent and prolific writer of the anteb...
Civil War (1861-1865)
- 05-09Battle of Rivers BridgeOn February 2-3, 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman’s Federals advanced toward Columbia, units of Gen. F.P. Blair’s XVII Corps a...
- 05-01Battle of Rivers' BridgeHere on February 3, 1865, the 17th U.S. Army Corps led by Major General Joseph A. Mower and Lieut. Gen. Giles A. Smith a...
New South (1877-1913)
- 05-18Bambery County CourthouseBamberg County, named for Gen. Francis Marion Bamberg, was formed in 1897. One of the first projects undertaken was the ...
- 05-16Denmark High SchoolDenmark High School is the second school located at this spot. The first Denmark School, designed by Charles Coker Wilso...
- 05-17Denmark Industrial SchoolThe Denmark Industrial School was started by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright after she made attempts to start a school for black...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 05-07AT&T BuildingThis Georgian Revival building, completed in 1923 at a cost of $300,000, was the third Denmark office of the American Te...
- 40-226Bethel SchoolAs early as 1908, Bethel School, also known as Blythewood Colored School, opened on land tradition says belonged to Beth...
- 05-04Carlisle Military SchoolSC Methodists began an institution on this site in 1892 naming it Carlisle Fitting School, for James H. Carlisle, presid...
- 05-06Voorhees CollegeVoorhees College, founded by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright in 1897 as the Denmark Industrial School, was an effort to emphasiz...