Greenwood County
29 places on the trail: 28 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 01-28Ambush at McCord's CreekOn Dec. 7, 1781, British Loyalists under command of Capt. John Crawford ambushed a Patriot wagon train near this site. T...
- 24-11Francis Salvador 1747-1776This young English Jew settled near Coronaca in 1774, represented Ninety Six District in the provincial congresses of 17...
- 24-08Londonborough SettlementTwo miles west is Powder Spring, traditional site of the town laid out for the Londonborough settlers in 1765. Abandoned...
- 24-02Long Cane Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church4.5 miles northwest is Long Cane Church, organized in 1771 as Associate Presbyterian, with the Rev. William Ronaldson as...
- 24-03Old Ninety Six (2 miles south)Even before 1730 the fork in the Cherokee Path, 96 miles south of Keowee, was called Ninety Six. Here a trading post was...
- 24-16Rock Presbyterian ChurchThis church, originally known as Rocky Creek Presbyterian Church, was founded in 1770 by ministers sent to upper S.C. fr...
- 24-26White HallBy 1767, White Hall was an extensive frontier plantation and the home of Andrew Williamson, unschooled son of Scottish s...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 24-18Cedar Springs A.R.P. ChurchThis church was organized 1779-1780 by Dr. Thomas Clark (d. 1791), who had emigrated from Ireland to N.Y. in 1764. Clark...
- 24-10John Waller 1741-1802One half mile south is the grave of John Waller, early minister of the Baptist faith in Virginia, where he is credited w...
- 24-15Siloam Baptist ChurchThis church was organized in 1799 by Rev. John Waller, Rev. David Lilly, William Chiles, and Meshec Overby, with 32 char...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 24-12Dr. Welsey C. NorwoodDr. Wesley C. Norwood (1806-1884), whose home was located near here, raised a storm of medical controversy in the 1850s ...
- 24-25HodgesThe town of Hodges began around 1852 as a stop on the Greenville & Columbia R.R. The station was first named for nearby ...
- 24-06John Henry Logan December 7, 1821-March 29, 1885Teacher, Historian, Physician/Born and reared in this house/John Henry Logan/first practiced medicine and taught school ...
- 24-07John Perkins Barratt May 11, 1795-September 29, 1859Physician, naturalist, versatile intellect, agricultural leader. President of Abbeville District Medical Society, 1835. ...
- 24-04Preston Brooks DinnerNational attention was focused here on Oct. 3, 1856, when some 10,000 people honored Preston S. Brooks, Congressman from...
- 19-10Sheppard's CrossroadsIn 1828, this property, shown on Anderson's 1816 map as Kirksey's Tavern, was sold by John Kirksey to James Sheppard (17...
- 24-05Tabernacle Cemetery1000 feet east is Tabernacle Cemetery on the site of Tabernacle Methodist Church and Tabernacle Academy. Buried here are...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
New South (1877-1913)
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 24-23Bradley CCC Camp F-7Bradley Civilian Conservation Corps Camp F-7, opened in Nov. 1934, was the first CCC Camp on the Long Cane Ranger Distri...
- 24-21Ninety Six Colored SchoolThe Ninety Six Colored School, built nearby between 1927 and 1932, was a combined elementary and high school through the...
- 24-20Southern Railway DepotThis depot, built for the Southern Railway in 1915, is an outstanding example of an early-20th century combination passe...
- 24-22Ware Shoals SchoolThis school, built in 1926 as Ware Shoals School, was a grammar and high school until 1991 and has been a high school si...
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 24-13Dr. Benjamin E. MaysThe spiritual mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Born here in 1894. Served as president of Morehouse College 1940-67 and ...
- 24-24Edgewood SchoolThis brick campus opened in 1956 as Edgewood School. Part of Ninety Six School District, Edgewood served local African A...
- 24-14Louis Booker WrightLouis Booker Wright (1899 1984), scholar of American colonial history and Elizabethan culture, was born in the Phoenix c...