Kershaw County
27 places on the trail: 25 highway markers, 2 battlefields and state sites.
People of Kershaw County in Carolina Quotes
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 28-01Battle of CamdenNear here on August 16, 1780, an American army under General Gates was defeated by British forces commanded by Lord Corn...
- 28-02Battle of Hobkirk HillBattle of Hobkirk Hill in the Revolutionary War took place on this ridge April 25, 1781. The British Army was commanded ...
- 28-05GAOLOn this corner stood the gaol, built in 1771 and burned in 1812. During the Revolution the British imprisoned in it many...
- 28-03General Greene's Headquarters150 yards to the east is where Gen. Nathanael Greene had the headquarters of the American Army during the Battle of Hobk...
- 28-15Peay's FerryA ferry was operated on the Wateree Point, at a point about 4 mi. W, as early as 1775. In 1808 ferry rights were granted...
- 28-23Rugeley's MillsRugeley’s Mills was a Revolutionary-era trading post located northeast of Flat Rock and Grannys Quarter Creeks. Owned by...
- 28-18Samuel Mathis HouseThe Samuel Mathis House, known as “Aberdeen,” was built c. 1805 and is among the oldest extant houses in Camden. It was ...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 28-07Pleasant Hill Baptist ChurchThe first Baptist Church in this area of Kershaw County was founded in a wooded area on Mecklenburg Road, two miles sout...
- 28-19The Price HouseThe Price House dates to 1829-30 and was built shortly after the Camden fire of 1829 burned many of the homes and busine...
- 28-16Tiller's FerryIn 1760 Joseph Tiller received a grant for 100 acres on Lynches River, including this crossroads. James Tiller operated ...
- 28-14Warrenton Muster GroundThe Warrenton Muster Ground, originally known as Gardner's Old Field, was a nineteenth and early-twentieth century meeti...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 28-21Ephesus United Methodist ChurchEphesus United Methodist Church (U.M.C.) formally organized in 1869, when freed African Americans built a small frame ch...
- 28-24Mt. Moriah Baptist ChurchMt. Moriah Baptist Church was established in 1866 and is one of the oldest Black Baptist congregations in Kershaw County...
New South (1877-1913)
- 20-23Camp WelfareThis camp ground, described by one journalist as “picturesque, rugged, simple, with an overhanging air of festivity,” ha...
- 28-13E.H. Dibble StoreThis store, constructed in 1891 on what was then the corner of 6th Avenue (now Broad Street) and DeKalb Streets, was the...
- 28-11Mather AcademyMather Academy was founded in 1887 by the New England Southern Conference of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the ...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 28-08Baruch HomeOn this site stood the birthplace and boyhood home of Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965), financier, philanthropist, and advi...
- 28-09Midway High SchoolMidway School, established on this site in 1923 with grades 1-11, served Cassatt and other rural areas in Kershaw County...
- 28-22Pine Grove PlantationThis site was part of Pine Grove Plantation, owned in the early 20th century by Lemuel Whitaker “Whit” Boykin (1861-1932...
- 28-20Red Hill SchoolThis frame building was constructed in 1927-28 to house a school for African American families of Red Hill and surroundi...