Chesterfield County
26 places on the trail: 26 highway markers.
People of Chesterfield County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 13-11Francis Asbury's First Visit to S.C.Francis Asbury (1745-1816), pioneer bishop of American Methodism, came to Cheraw in 1785, on his first visit to S.C. Asb...
- 13-09John Craig HouseThis house, the oldest in Chesterfield, was built ca. 1798 for John Craig (1755-1839), veteran of the American Revolutio...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 13-10Austin-Craig-Laney HouseThis Carpenter Gothic house was begun ca. 1858 for Aaron Austin (1831-1863) and his wife Margaret Jane Craig. Austin, a ...
- 13-03Chesterfield CourthouseChesterfield County's first courthouse was built here soon after the county was established in 1785. The second courthou...
- 13-24St. Paul Methodist ChurchMethodism in Chesterfield County dates to the 1780s. This Methodist congregation organized in c.1830. It was one of thir...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 13-08Pee Dee Union Baptist ChurchThis church, formally organized in 1867, had its origins in Cheraw Baptist Church, founded in 1837. Shortly after the Ci...
- 13-12Thomas E. Lucas HouseThis two-story house with a central-hall plan was built about 1868 for Dr. Thomas Ephraim Lucas (1836-1920), physician, ...
New South (1877-1913)
- 13-21Carolina HotelConstructed c. 1905, this two-story building originally housed the Carolina Hotel. Then made of exposed brick, the hotel...
- 13-04Cash HomesiteAbout 100 yards east of here was the home of General Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash, widely known for his 1880 duel with c...
- 13-17Chesterfield AcademyThe building that stands here once served as the Chesterfield Academy. The first Chesterfield Academy building was locat...
- 13-25Chesterfield Baptist ChurchChesterfield Baptist Church organized in 1877. Members first met at another Main St. site in a house owned by founding m...
- 13-23Chesterfield County JailThis 2-story brick building was constructed in 1894 to house the Chesterfield Co. Jail. Built by the Pawley Jail Company...
- 13-15Chesterfield High SchoolChesterfield High School, which stood here from 1908 to 1992, was the successor to Chesterfield Academy, an antebellum s...
- 13-26Chesterfield Presbyterian ChurchChesterfield Presbyterian Church first organized in 1889 with nine members. Rev. S.E. Bishop joined them and served as s...
- 13-05Coulter Memorial Academy SiteOrganized in 1881, this Negro Presbyterian (USA) school was founded by the Rev. J. P. Crawford with support from Mrs. C....
- 13-20Mt. Tabor Methodist ChurchMt. Tabor Methodist Church dates to the early days of emancipation when, according to local tradition, a group of freedp...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 13-22Chesterfield Colored SchoolThis was the site of the Chesterfield Colored School, a segregated school built in 1937 to serve African Americans. The ...
- 13-06Dizzy Gillespie BirthplaceJohn Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was born in a house on this site on Oct. 21, 1917. His family lived here until they moved t...
- 13-19Dr. Duett Thompson Teal HouseThe Dr. Duett Thompson Teal House was built in 1921. It is a large, asymmetrical home with a circular tower at its S.W. ...
- 13-07Seaboard Air Line Railway DepotThis depot, built in 1914, was the second station built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway in McBee. The town, the most su...
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 13-13Chesterfield Post OfficeThis post office, built in 1937-38, is one of several New Deal-era post offices in S.C. designed by the Public Works Div...
- 13-14Craig ParkThis park was built in 1933-35 by three New Deal-era programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term. The land was donate...
- 13-18Long High School SiteLong H.S. was completed in 1955 and replaced Coulter Academy as the primary African American H.S. in Cheraw. The school ...
- 13-16Robert Smalls SchoolRobert Smalls School was built in 1953 as a segregated school for African American students. Construction was funded as ...