Williamsburg County
30 places on the trail: 30 highway markers.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
- 45-06Black Mingo-WilltownBy 1760, Charles Woodmason had established a store near here, following a 1745 Act of the General Assembly that provided...
- 45-09Early SettlersAmong the first settlers of Williamsburg County, members of the Witherspoon family sailed from Belfast to Charleston in ...
- 45-01Indiantown Presbyterian ChurchOrganized in 1757 with John James and Robert Wilson as founding elders. Burned by the British in 1780 as "a sedition sho...
- 45-04Old Muster Ground and CourthouseThis lot was designated the parade ground in the original survey of the town in 1737. It served as the muster ground for...
- 45-10Williamsburg ChurchThis Presbyterian church was established 1736 by John Witherspoon and other early Scotch-Irish settlers. Originally loca...
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 45-03Battle of KingstreeSomewhere northwest of Kingstree on the night of Aug. 27, 1780, while scouting for Gen. Marion, a South Carolina militia...
- 45-02Battle of Lower BridgeGen. Francis Marion and his men defeated the British at this place in March 1781. Advancing from the west and finding th...
- 45-11Captain William Henry MouzonThis was the plantation of Capt. William Henry Mouzon (1741-1807), prominent militia officer in the American Revolution....
- 21-10Skirmish at Black Mingo CreekOn Sept. 14, 1780, Gen. Francis Marion's Patriots routed a Tory force commanded by Capt. J. Coming Ball. The Tories, att...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 45-05Ebenezer United Methodist ChurchThis church is said to be the oldest Methodist congregation in present Williamsburg County. It was established prior to ...
- 45-20Union Presbyterian ChurchThis church was organized in 1857 by members of Williamsburg Presbyterian Church who lived south of Black River and want...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
- 45-08Benjamin Britton Chandler (1854-1925)Active in the Red Shirt campaign which resulted in Gen. Wade Hampton's election as S.C. governor, 1876, Chandler later s...
- 45-14Mt. Zion A.M.E. ChurchThis church was founded in 1867 on land donated by Moses and Matilda Watson. It was the first African American church in...
New South (1877-1913)
- 45-24Bethel African Methodist Episcopal ChurchThis African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) congregation organized in 1879. In that year, founding trustees Carter Murray ...
- 45-15Cooper's AcademyCooper’s Academy, built in 1905-06, was a private boarding school for the black children of this community until 1927, a...
- 45-27Epps-McGill FarmhouseThis two-story house dates to 1907 and is a fine local example of Folk Victorian architecture. It was built on land owne...
- 45-17McCollum-Murray HouseThis house, with Classical Revival architectural influences, was built ca. 1906 for Edward J. McCollum (1867-1942), Afri...
- 45-28Mt. Seal Methodist ChurchThis Methodist congregation was originally known as Turkey Creek Church. Tradition holds that members first worshipped u...
- 45-18St. Alban's Episcopal ChurchSt. Alban’s Episcopal Church has long been the only continuously active Episcopal congregation in Williamsburg County. I...
- 45-31St. Mary African Methodist Episcopal ChurchTradition holds that St. Mary African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church was organized in the 1890s by Rev. Caesar Wils...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 45-13Burrow's Service StationThis significant cultural and architectural example of a 20th-century country store was built in 1937 by Theron Burrows ...
- 45-30St. John SchoolThis was the site of St. John School, a public school for African American children of the Moore’s Crossroads area. It w...
- 45-26Tomlinson SchoolFormerly enslaved African Americans built the first Tomlinson School in 1866. Overseen by the Freedmen’s Bureau, it was ...
- 45-29Union SchoolThis is the site of Union School, a public school that served African Americans mostly from the Salters and Lane communi...
- 45-21Williamsburg High SchoolThe brick school built here in 1935 consolidated ten rural districts between the Santee and Black Rivers into a single d...
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 45-22"Let Us March on Ballot Boxes"On May 8, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Kingstree. King’s speech, which came after passage of the Voting Righ...
- 45-25Benevolent Societies HospitalIn March 1948, eight local Black benevolent societies founded a hospital for African Americans at this site. It was hous...
- 45-23Chubby Checker HomeOn Oct. 3, 1941, Ernest Evans, later known by his stage name, “Chubby Checker,” was born to Raymond and Eartle (Scott) E...