Orangeburg County
57 places on the trail: 56 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
- 38-15Church of the RedeemerThe first Anglican church in Orangeburg Township was established about 1750 by John Giessendanner, and a chapel at Orang...
- 38-09Old Charleston RoadThis was the first public road connecting Orangeburg with Charleston and was authorized by an Act of the General Assembl...
- 38-11Pioneer GraveyardFrom the time of the first settlement of Orangeburg Township in 1735 until the founding of various denominational cemete...
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 38-55Battle of Eutaw SpringsOne of S.C.’s most significant Revolutionary War battles took place here on Sept. 8, 1781. British and Loyalist troops l...
- 38-01Eutaw Springs BattlefieldLast major battle in S.C. of the War for American Independence September 8, 1781.
- 38-07Grave of Major MajoribanksThe British army encamped at Wantoot Plantation, home of Daniel Ravenel, after the Battle of Eutaw Springs. Now under La...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 38-16Miller CemeteryThis cemetery was the burial site of the Miller family from the early 1800s. The remaining stones were erected in 1836 t...
- 38-43Rocky Swamp Methodist Church and CemeteryRocky Swamp Methodist Episcopal Church was among the first Methodist congregations in this part of S.C. A meeting house ...
- 38-33Target Methodist ChurchThis church, founded about 1800, is one of the oldest Methodist congregations in this part of the state. It takes its na...
- 38-23The Rocks PlantationHouse built 1803-05 by Capt. Peter Gaillard (1757-1833), pioneer cotton planter, S.C. Assemblyman 1796-7 & 1812-15. Hous...
- 38-18White House ChurchThis four acre tract of land with an earlier structure known as the "White Meeting House" was given to the Methodist Epi...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 38-10Court House SquareThe third court house for Orangeburg County was erected on this site in 1826. It was designed by Robert Mills, who was s...
- 38-22Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and GraveyardAnglicanism was established in Orangeburg Township about 1750. After a period of no recorded activity, efforts were made...
- 38-08EutawvilleSettled in the 1840s on higher ground in the healthy pines of upper St. John's Parish, the town of Eutawville was founde...
- 38-17Holly HillThis community had come into existence by 1848 near the Camden fork of the Old State Road. It was chartered in 1887 in B...
- 38-35Providence Methodist ChurchThis church grew out of services held in the area by circuit riders as early as 1806. Its first church, a log building, ...
- 38-06Santee LimestoneSir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), noted British geologist, visited S.C. in 1842 and described its geology in his Travels in...
- 38-29Santee LimestoneSir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), noted British geologist, visited S.C. in 1842 and described its geology in his Travels in...
- 38-03South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company Original Track LocationBegan first successful scheduled steam railroad service in America on December 25, 1830, and by 1833 its 136 miles from ...
- 38-32Trinity Lutheran ChurchTrinity Lutheran Church was founded in 1849 by German-Swiss Lutherans who came to Orangeburg District from Charleston. T...
- 38-20Walnut Grove ChurchThis Baptist Church, a branch of Four Holes Baptist Church in present Orangeburg County from 1840 to 1869, was admitted ...
- 38-19Zion ChurchEvidence indicates that it was one of the earliest Methodist churches in the Orangeburg area. The original building, bui...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 38-14Alexander S. Salley (1871-1961)Here was the birthplace of Alexander Samuel Salley, who devoted fifty years to the collection, preservation, and publica...
- 38-36Bushy Pond Baptist ChurchThis church was organized during or just after the Civil War by black members of Willow Swamp Baptist Church, a combined...
- 38-26Claflin CollegeClaflin College, founded in 1869 as Claflin University, is the oldest historically black college in S.C. and was establi...
- 38-24Trinity United Methodist ChurchThis African-American church, established in 1866, built its first sanctuary 4 blocks SE in 1870. Construction began on ...
- 38-30Williams Chapel A.M.E. ChurchThis church was founded in 1873 with Rev. Dave Christie as its first pastor. In 1877 trustees Emily A. Williams, Richard...
New South (1877-1913)
- 38-49Eutawville RailroadThe Eutawville Railroad opened in Jan. 1886 with a 12 mi.-trek that ended at this site. Chartered 1884, the line began s...
- 38-41Jewish MerchantsRussell St., historic hub of Orangeburg’s commercial life, was home to Jewish merchants for over 160 years. German Jews ...
- 38-38John Benjamin Taylor HouseThis Craftsman house, built by 1903, was the home of Rev. John Benjamin Taylor (1867-1936) until his death. Taylor, a mi...
- 38-04Old Dixie Club LibraryThis antebellum structure once stood on Orangeburg's Public Square. In 1865 it was occupied by Federal troops. From 1924...
- 38-53Railroad CornerFor decades this was the site of an African American business district known as Railroad Corner. The Corner extended nor...
- 38-28Shiloh A.M.E. ChurchThis church, founded in 1886, was organized by Revs. D.A. Christie and C. Heyward with Sol Ellerbe and Mordecai Williams...
- 38-25South Carolina State UniversityS.C. State University was founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College of S.C., ...
- 38-42St. Paul's Episcopal ChurchSt. Paul’s Episcopal Church was established in 1912. It was founded by Dr. Robert Shaw Wilkinson (1865-1932) and his wif...
- 38-12The Town of NorthIn the year 1891, John F. North, Samson A. Livingston, and George W. Pou gave jointly and equally one hundred acres of l...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 38-02Albergotti PlaygroundNamed in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Albergotti, Sr., For Their Sustaining Interest in Public Recreation for Children. T...
- 38-34Bowman Rosenwald SchoolBowman Rosenwald School, which stood here from 1927 to 1952, was one of several African-American schools in Orangeburg C...
- 38-54Bull Swamp Colored SchoolIn 1936 the 3-room Bull Swamp Colored School was built near Bull Swamp Baptist Church. The building cost $3,000 and was ...
- 38-40Felton Training School & TeacherageFelton Training School was completed in 1925 and was financed in part by the Rosenwald Fund (1917-1948). It was a four-t...
- 38-31Great Branch School and TeacherageThe Great Branch School, which stood here from 1918 to the early 1960s, was one of the first Rosenwald schools in S.C. A...
- 38-39Holly Hill Rosenwald SchoolThe Holly Hill Rosenwald School once stood near this location. Built 1926-27, the Holly Hill School was the third school...
- 38-56Orangeburg County Training SchoolIn 1924, Elloree School District bought 4 acres at this site from Black farmer Robert L. Williams to build Orangeburg Co...
- 38-46Pewilburwhitcade New Farmers CampIn 1935, the S.C. chapter of New Farmers of America (N.F.A.), a vocational agriculture association for African American ...
- 38-37Rocky Swamp Rosenwald SchoolThis is the site of Rocky Swamp Rosenwald School, a frame three-room school built here in 1920-21 for African-American s...
- 38-44Wilkinson High SchoolIn 1938, Orangeburg’s first black high school opened in this building, constructed by the Works Progress Administration....
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 38-50Christ the King Catholic ChurchIn 1930, white Catholic priests in the Redemptorist missionary order assumed charge of local Holy Trinity Parish. In 193...
- 38-51Christ the King Catholic SchoolThis was the site of Christ the King Catholic School for local African Americans. Classes were previously held at Christ...
- 38-47Civil Rights MeetingsIn the early 1960s, this campus was an important meeting place for local college students organizing for civil rights. O...
- 38-21Hawthorne School of AeronauticsFrom 1941 to 1945, 5924 American & French pilots were trained here, totaling almost 330,000 flight hours. Site is 1 mi. ...
- 38-48Matte E. Pegues New Homemakers CampAt the end of this road is the site of a camp opened in 1946 by the S.C. New Homemakers of America (N.H.A.), an organiza...
- 38-52S.C. State School of LawIn 1946, John H. Wrighten III, a S.C. State student from Edisto Island, applied to all-white Univ. of South Carolina Sch...
- 38-27The Orangeburg MassacreOn February 8, 1968, after three nights of escalating racial tension over efforts by S.C. State College students and oth...