Jasper County
30 places on the trail: 29 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
- 27-18CoosawatchieCoosawhatchie, dating to the 1740s, was named for the Coosaw tribe. At first it was little more than a store and inn bui...
- 27-12Euhaw Baptist ChurchEstablished on Edisto Island about 1686 by Scotch dissenters, this is the second oldest Baptist organization in the Sout...
- 27-03Purrysburg TownshipIn 1730, the British Crown instructed S.C. Governor Robert Johnson to lay out eleven townships to populate and protect t...
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 27-28Battle of Coosawhatchie (1779)Near here is the site of a 1779 American Revolutionary War battle. On Apr. 30, 1,200 Patriot soldiers under Gen. William...
- 27-07Tomb of Thomas Heyward, Jr., 1746-1809Member of South Carolina Provincial Congress and Council of Safety and of Continental Congress. Signer of Declaration of...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 27-04Church of the Holy TrinityThis Episcopal church was a chapel of ease in the Parish of St. Luke for a number of years before it became a separate c...
- 27-06GillisonvilleShown on the 1820 Beaufort District map by Vignoles and Ravenel, Gillisonville had a free school by 1831, and a post off...
- 27-11Gillisonville Baptist ChurchThe Euhaw congregation constituted this ecclesiastical group 24 March 1832, naming it Coosawhatchie Baptist Church. The ...
- 27-16GrahamvilleThis summer village, established about 1800 by the rice planters of St. Luke's Parish, was a thriving settlement in what...
- 27-13Great Swamp Baptist ChurchThis church, organized October 12, 1845, was the result of a clash in doctrines at nearby Sardis Baptist Church. Some in...
- 27-05TillmanBy 1820, the road to Two Sisters Ferry intersected the Purrysburg road at this spot, which had become known as Hennis Cr...
Civil War (1861-1865)
- 27-02Battle of Honey HillDuring this battle of Nov. 30, 1864, Confederate commander Charles J. Colcock, by ordering that a nearby field of grass ...
- 27-22Battle of PocotaligoThe Battle of Pocotaligo, the largest action of a three-day expedition intended to disrupt the Charleston & Savannah Rai...
- 27-29Battle of TulifinnyOn Dec. 6-9, 1864, in the waning months of the Civil War, around 1,000 Confederate soldiers defended the nearby Charlest...
- 27-08Fighting Near CoosawhatchieOn October 22, 1862, in running encounters near Coosawhatchie, Frampton's Plantation, and Pocotaligo, Confederate troops...
- 27-01RobertvilleNamed for descendents of Huguenot minister Pierre Robert, it was the birthplace of Henry Martyn Robert, author of Robert...
- 27-19The Frampton LinesRemnants of a large earthwork originally more than 100 yards long are still visible south, west, and northwest of the Fr...
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 27-26Cummingsville CemeteryCummingsville Cemetery dates to the 1870s when a group of freedmen formed the Cummingsville Society and purchased 10 acr...
- 27-21Oak Grove Baptist ChurchThis church was organized in 1870 by Revs. John D. Nix, W.H. Shuman, and Jonas Trowell. F.J. Bryan and A.W. Crosby were ...
- 27-14Pine Level Baptist ChurchThis church, organized on January 6, 1872 with Rev. M.H. Shuman as its first minister, held services in members' homes u...
- 27-20St. Matthew Baptist ChurchThis church was founded in 1870 with Rev. Plenty Pinckney as its first minister and worshipped in a “bush tent” nearby u...
New South (1877-1913)
- 27-09Narrow Gauge Locomotive No. 7This woodburning steam locomotive with balloon smoke stack, was built by the H. K. Porter Company about 1910. It was use...
- 27-24RidgelandRidgeland, named for its location on the ridge between Charleston and Savannah, has been the seat of Jasper County since...
- 27-17Ridgeland Baptist ChurchThis church was organized February 28, 1892, by Revs. W.H. Dowling and J.T. Morrison with nine charter members. It was a...
- 27-23St. Paul's Methodist ChurchThis church, organized in 1890, is the oldest in Ridgeland, with its origins in several area Methodist congregations bef...
- 27-15Tillman Baptist ChurchThis church, formally established in 1883 as Savin Grove Baptist Church, had its origins in a congregation active before...