Clarendon County
29 places on the trail: 28 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
People of Clarendon County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 14-06Encounter at Halfway SwampOn December 12, 1780, according to tradition, British Maj. Robert McLeroth was surprised near here by Gen. Francis Mario...
- 14-01Fort WatsonThe first post in S. C. retaken from the British, the stockade fort on this old Indian mound had controlled the road fro...
- 14-05Revolutionary Skirmish Near Tearcoat BranchOn the night of October 25, 1780, Col. Francis Marion with 150 men surprised and completely routed 200 Tories under Col....
- 14-07Revolutionary Skirmish Near Wyboo SwampDuring Francis Marion's 1781 campaign to drive the British from the Pee Dee, he and his men clashed near here in March w...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 14-09Andrews Chapel ChurchAccording to local tradition, this Methodist congregation was organized in 1786 and pioneer American bishop Francis Asbu...
- 14-22Brewington Presbyterian ChurchEstablished c.1811 on the Black River, near Brewington Lake, by five members on land donated by James Evans family. It i...
- 14-10Clarendon CountyFive SC governors have come from this area, which was part of the Parish of St. Mark (1757) and Camden District (1769) b...
- 14-02Midway ChurchMidway Presbyterian Church, named because of its location halfway between Salem and Williamsburg Churches, traces its be...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 14-18Ebenezer Baptist ChurchThis church was founded about 1869 by Mary Scott “Aunt Mary” Harvin, and held its first services in a nearby brush arbor...
- 14-13Mt. Zion A.M.E. ChurchThis church, organized about 1865, held its early services in a nearby brush arbor but built a permanent sanctuary here ...
- 14-17Trinity A.M.E. ChurchThis church was founded soon after the Civil War by 50 freedmen and women who held their first services in a stable dona...
New South (1877-1913)
- 14-04Anne Custis BurgessThis is the childhood home of Anne Custis Burgess, who was born in 1874 in Mayesville. After receiving a diploma from Co...
- 14-28Butler CemeteryThis cemetery dates to at least the 1860s and likely began as a burial ground for white members of the Butler and Nelson...
- 14-20Manning SchoolsThe Manning Collegiate Institute, the town’s first public school opened here in early 1890. The two-story frame school w...
- 14-27St. Mark A.M.E.In 1885, sixty-five former members of Liberty Hill A.M.E. Church (3 mi. SE) organized this congregation to have a church...
- 14-14Summerton Presbyterian ChurchThis church, founded in 1875 as a mission of the Presbyterian Church in Manning, grew out of occasional services held in...
- 14-11Taw Caw ChurchIn 1885 this black baptist church bought the building here, said built about 1860, from white Taw Caw church, now Summer...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 14-16Hannah Levi Memorial LibraryThe Hannah Levi Memorial Library, built in 1909-10 grew out of a library fund begun in 1905 by the children of Moses and...
- 14-12Pleasant Grove SchoolBlack institution built soon after school district purchased the land 1933. School closed 1953 with 5 teachers/159 stude...
- 14-15Senn's MillThis complex, featuring a blacksmith shop (ca. 1903), grist mill (ca. 1905), and bottling plant (ca. 1921), was operated...
- 14-21St. Mary Catholic ChurchThis Carpenter Gothic church, dedicated in 1914, is the oldest Catholic church in Clarendon County. Established as a mis...
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 14-25Briggs Family HouseOn November 11, 1949, local African American families came to this house to sign a petition demanding equal resources in...
- 14-08Liberty Hill ChurchIn 1867, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Thomas and Margaret Briggs gave four acres of land to this Afri...
- 14-23Manning Training SchoolManning Training School has origins in the early 20th century with the Slater Fund helped finance Clarendon County Train...
- 14-26Pearson Family HomesiteThis farm was home to the family of Levi Pearson (1894-1970), who with his brother, Hammett Pearson, joined other Africa...
- 14-24Scott's Branch SchoolPreviously located at Taw Caw Baptist Church outside Summerton and at a site on 1st St., Scott’s Branch School moved her...