Union County
24 places on the trail: 21 highway markers, 3 battlefields and state sites.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 44-21"Christie's Tavern"Christopher Coleman, native of Va., was granted several hundred acres of land in this area in the 1760s. He and his wife...
- 44-07Battle of Blackstock'sThis battle of the Revolution took place on William Blackstock's plantation, 3 miles N. on the south side of the Tyger R...
- 44-15Fair Forest PlantationFair Forest, named for nearby Fairforest Creek, was the plantation of Col. Thomas Fletchall (d. 1789), prominent militia...
- 44-04Fairforest Meeting1.5 miles SW stood the original Fairforest Baptist Church. The members, led by the Reverend Philip Mulkey, came from Nor...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 44-03Cross Keys HouseA post office was established in 1809 at Cross Keys, S.C. In 1812-14, Barrum Bobo erected this house at the intersection...
- 44-09Padgett's Creek Baptist ChurchThis church was founded in 1784 by Revs. John Webb and John Cole, with Barnet Putman and William Wilbanks, Sr. as its fi...
- 44-14Site of Union Church, 1783-1819A “union” church, one founded as a Presbyterian congregation but also used by other denominations, stood here from ca. 1...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 44-12Culp-Beaty HallThis Greek Revival house was built ca. 1857 for Benjamin Dudley Culp (1821-1885) and his wife Cornelia Meng Culp (1830-1...
- 44-11Episcopal Church of the NativityThis parish was established in 1855 with the Rev. John DeWitt McCollough (1822-1902) as its first rector. This Gothic Re...
- 44-13Presbyterian CemeteryThis cemetery, the oldest in Union, was established ca. 1817 and sometimes called the “village cemetery.” In 1818 a Pres...
- 44-02Rose Hill MansionErected in 1828-32 by William Henry Gist (1807-1874), lawyer, planter, legislator, and Secessionist Governor of South Ca...
- 44-18Thomas N. Dawkins HouseThis was the home of Thomas N. Dawkins (1807-1870) and his second wife Mary Poulton Dawkins (1820-1906). Dawkins, a lawy...
- 44-05Union County JailThe S.C. Board of Public Works had at least fourteen public buildings under contract in 1822-23, when Robert Mills, Acti...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 44-19Poplar Grove SchoolPoplar Grove School opened in 1927 as a four-classroom school for African American students in Union Co. An extra classr...
- 44-08Sims High SchoolSims High School stood here from 1927 until the early 1970s and was the first black high school in Union County. It was ...
- 44-10Union Community HospitalUnion Community Hospital served the black community of Union County and nearby areas from 1932 to 1975. Built as a house...