Dorchester County
39 places on the trail: 38 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
People of Dorchester County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
- 18-11Archdale HallArchdale Hall Plantation was established in 1681 by a royal grant of 300 acres to Richard Baker. The plantation, later e...
- 18-04Middleton PlaceThese famous gardens were laid out about 1741 by Henry Middleton (1717-84), President of Continental Congress. His son, ...
- 18-06Newington PlantationNewington Plantation was established on this site in the 1680s after Daniel Axtell received a royal grant of 300 acres. ...
- 18-01Old DorchesterLaid out in 1697 as a market town for the Congregationalist colony from Dorchester, Mass., the village contained 116 qua...
- 18-05Old White Meeting House and CemeteryThis church was established in 1696 by settlers from Dorchester, Mass., for which the town of Dorchester was named. This...
- 18-02Parish Church of St. George, DorchesterSt. George's, an Anglican parish, was erected 1717. A brick church 50 ft. long and 30 ft. wide with a chancel 15 by 5 fe...
- 10-63Windsor Hill PlantationThis inland rice plantation was established in 1701 by a grant of 500 acres to Joseph Child. The original grant was betw...
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 18-19Bacon's BridgeAn early bridge over the Ashley River near this site, built ca. 1696-1700, was first owned by John Stevens. Stevens sold...
- 18-03Fort DorchesterA brick powder magazine enclosed by a tabby wall eight feet high was built here in 1757. During the Revolution, Dorchest...
- 18-07Four Holes Swamp BridgeThe first bridge across Four Holes Swamp, a branch of the Edisto River, was built between 1770 and 1780 and was located ...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 18-10Appleby's Methodist ChurchThis church was organized shortly after the Revolution and this site was deeded to seven trustees in 1787. One of them, ...
- 18-14Cypress Methodist Camp GroundThis camp ground, dating to 1794, is one of the oldest in S.C. Francis Asbury (1745-1816), circuit rider and the first M...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 18-17DorchesterThis town, in Colleton County before Dorchester was founded in 1897, dates to the early 19th century and the origins of ...
- 18-13Grover Methodist ChurchThis church was founded in the early 19th century as Murray’s Church and served by ministers riding the Cypress Circuit....
- 18-12Koger-Murray-Carroll HouseThis house, an excellent example of early Federal era-architecture, was built about 1800 for Joseph Koger, Jr. (1779-186...
- 18-28StallsvilleThe pineland village of Stallsville developed on the high ground above Saw Mill Creek and was named for the Stall family...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
New South (1877-1913)
- 18-33Four Holes Indian CommunityAround 1910, Native American families living in the Creeltown community (approx. 6 mi. W) began resettling in this area ...
- 18-21HarleyvilleHarleyville is named for the Harley family who owned much of the land that comprises the present town. William “Cow Bill...
- 18-25Jewish LifeSummerville became a renowned health resort in the late 1800s. Many Jewish merchants, drawn to the bustling settlement, ...
- 18-32Murray United Methodist ChurchTradition holds this Methodist congregation organized around the end of the Civil War and initially worshipped under a b...
- 18-27Pine Forest InnThe Pine Forest Inn opened in 1892. It was owned and managed by F.W. and George Wagener. The 60-acre resort and health s...
- 18-22Pinehurst Tea FarmIn 1880 the U.S. government leased 200 acres of the former Newington Plantation from Henry Middleton for tea production....
- 18-20RidgevilleThis town, in Colleton County before Dorchester County was founded in 1897, dates from 1831. It was one of the first sta...
- 18-15Shady Grove Camp GroundThis camp ground, established about 1870, is the largest of 4 Methodist camp grounds in Dorchester County. Tradition hol...
- 18-16St. Paul Camp GroundThis Methodist camp ground, one of four in Dorchester County, was established in 1880. African-American freedmen in this...
- 18-26Timrod LibraryIn 1897, the Timrod Library was organized by 19 women as a Chautauqua Reading Circle. It was chartered in 1908 as the Ti...
- 18-29Town of St. GeorgeSt. George developed as a stop on the S.C. Canal and Railroad known as “George’s Station.” It was named for James George...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 18-09Alston Graded SchoolAlston Graded School, one of the first African-American schools founded in Dorchester County, stood here from 1910 to 19...
- 18-18Badham HouseThis Neoclassical Revival house, called “one of the finest” in S.C. in 1920, was built in 1912 for Vernon Cosby Badham (...
- 18-24St. George Public High SchoolSt. George High School was built in 1927 on the corner of Raysor and Ridge Sts. In 1936 the school district received a W...
- 18-36St. George Rosenwald SchoolThis wood frame building dates to 1925-26 and was originally a public school for Black residents of St. George and other...
- 18-30Summerville High SchoolThe 2-story brick building SW of here was built in 1924-25 to house Summerville High School (SHS). The school originally...
- 18-35Summerville Water WorksIn 1930 the Summerville Water Works opened at this site. A project of the city Commission of Public Works, it was the ce...
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 18-34Four Holes Public SchoolAround 1964 a segregated 3-room concrete block school was built here for Native American children of the Four Holes comm...
- 18-37Kennedy-Jenkins Hill High SchoolKennedy High School opened at this site in 1954-55. It served Black families from Dorchester Co. School District No. 3 (...