Colleton County
29 places on the trail: 29 highway markers.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
- 15-08Bethel Presbyterian ChurchFounded on this site in 1728 by the Reverend Archibald Stobo, Bethel or Pon Pon Church served a large Presbyterian congr...
- 15-19Bethel Presbyterian ChurchThis church, originally located at Jacksonboro, was founded in 1728 by Rev. Archibald Stobo (d. 1741), father of the Pre...
- 15-28Edisto IslandThis roughly 68-sq.-mi. sea island has been known as Edisto since at least the 1600s when it was occupied by the Edisto ...
- 15-01Old JacksonboroughFounded about 1735 on lands granted John Jackson in 1701. County Seat of Colleton District from 1799 to 1822. Provisiona...
- 15-14Pon-Pon ChapelOn Parker's Ferry road one mile northeast of here are the ruins of Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, established in 1725 by an Act...
- 15-13Temple of SportOn top of this ridge stood a sylvan temple erected before the Revolution by Colonel Barnard Elliott, patriot and sportsm...
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 15-12Battle of Parker's FerrySent to intercept a raid by 540 Hessians, British, and Tories, General Francis Marion with a force of 400 men, on August...
- 15-04General Greene at the Round OGeneral Nathanael Greene advanced into the Low Country with the Continental Army under his command and set up headquarte...
- 15-06Martyr of the RevolutionWhen Loyalist soldiers attacked the camp of Col. Isaac Hayne’s S.C. militia about 5 mi. W on July 7, 1781, they captured...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 15-20Cross Swamp Methodist ChurchCross Swamp Methodist Church, the first Methodist congregation in upper Colleton County, was founded in 1808. James and ...
- 15-03EdmundsburyA brick Chapel of Ease for St. Bartholomew's Parish was built here in 1785 in a town laid out in 1740 and named for Land...
- 15-15Salkehatchie Presbyterian ChurchThis was formerly the site of a Presbyterian church organized in 1766 by the Reverend Archibald Simpson, minister from S...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 15-10Catholic HillSettlers from Ireland of the Roman Catholic faith in this area helped form the ecclesiastical territory of Colleton, Bea...
- 15-18Colleton County CourthouseThe original section of this courthouse, completed in 1822 after the county seat moved to Walterborough from Jacksonboro...
- 15-27Creeltown Indian CommunityCreeltown is a community of Native American families that dates to c.1850. It was named for the family of William “Bart”...
- 15-11Hickory ValleyNear here in a hickory grove Paul and Jacob Walter built in 1784 summer houses, which formed the nucleus of a summer col...
- 15-05Island Creek Meeting HouseThe cemetery one-half mile west is on the site of a meeting house deeded to the Methodist Society by John Fontaine in 18...
- 15-29St. Jude's ChurchThis was originally the parish church for St. Jude’s Episcopal Parish. The church was initially part of St. Bartholomew’...
- 15-09Walterboro JailThis neo-Gothic building, designed by Jones & Lee, noted architects of Charleston, and constructed by J. & B. Lucas in 1...
- 15-07Walterborough AcademyIncorporated December 17, 1834, Walterborough Academy was the forerunner of the present city school system. Its trustees...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 15-17Anderson FieldThis airfield, the first in Colleton County, was built and dedicated in 1933 on 60 acres leased to the town of Walterbor...
- 40-227Palmetto CemeteryPalmetto Cemetery opened in the 1920s as a community burial ground for local African Americans. Sited on former farmland...
- 15-25Ruffin Rosenwald SchoolThis frame building dates to 1928-29 and originally housed a segregated school for Black residents of Ruffin. Its cost w...
- 15-24Walterboro Water TowerThis concrete water tower was built in 1915 as part of a program to improve Walterboro’s water, sewer, and electrical in...
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 15-22Colleton Training SchoolColleton Training School opened in 1925 and served African American students in the elementary and high school grades. I...
- 15-21Training the Tuskegee AirmenGraduates of the Tuskegee Army Flying School, who belonged to the first African-American units in the U.S. Army Air Corp...