Fairfield County
23 places on the trail: 23 highway markers.
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 20-10Battle of Mobley's Meeting HouseOn May 26, 1780, one of the first victories for the Patriots after the fall of Charleston took place 1 ½ miles east on L...
- 20-17Graveyard of the Richmond Covenanter Church Reformed Presbyterian(A quarter mile east)/Here lie buried many of the Scotch Irish pioneers who in 1772, under the leadership of the Rev. Wi...
- 20-06Kincaid-Anderson HouseThis two-story brick house was built by James Kincaid (1754-1801), Revolutionary War soldier, who came from Scotland in ...
- 20-09Thomas Woodward1/4 mile east stood the home of Thomas Woodward, prominent leader of the South Carolina Regulator Movement, 1768-1769. H...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 20-19Bethel ChurchThis Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church was incorporated in 1823. Early pastors were the Rev. James Lyle and the Rev...
- 20-14Cathcart-Ketchin HouseRichard Cathcart purchased this lot from John McMaster in 1829, and it is thought he built the present federal-style hou...
- 20-08Fairfield County CourthouseThis courthouse was built in 1822 by Wm. McCreight under the supervision of Robert Mills, South Carolina architect, then...
- 20-11Feasterville Female and Male AcademyAround 1840, an academy was established at this site by John Feaster, a noted landowner of this area, for the education ...
- 20-18First Methodist ChurchFirst United Methodist Church was established in 1808 under the leadership of the Rev. James Jenkins, an early circuit-r...
- 20-03James Henry Carlisle (1825-1909)Educator, Humanitarian, Religious Leader, College President. He believed that: "The student ought to be educated not sim...
- 20-13Mount Olivet ChurchOrganized before 1785, this Presbyterian Church was originally known as Wolf Pit Church, later as Wateree, and was final...
- 20-02Old Brick ChurchOn May 9, 1803, the Associate Reformed Synod of the Carolinas was organized here at Ebenezer A.R.P. Church, built in 178...
- 20-22Saint John's Epsicopal ChurchOrganized in 1839 and named for St. John's, Berkeley Parish, this was the third Episcopal church established north of Co...
- 20-24The OaksThis early Greek Revival house, built about 1835, is notable for its central double-tiered pedimented portico and double...
- 20-04William Porcher DuboseThis noted author-theologian, born at this site April 11, 1836, educated at Mt. Zion Institute, the Citadel, and the Uni...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 20-25Blackjack Baptist ChurchThis congregation was founded around 1870, mainly by Black former slaves of members of nearby Fairfield Baptist Church. ...
- 20-21St. Paul Baptist ChurchThis African American church was organized in 1873 by Simon McIntosh, Henry Golden, Lily Yarborough, Frances Kelly, Lizz...