South Carolina Trail Sites

Treacherous waters and Patriot fire foil a British attack on Charleston Harbor

Santee State Park offers biking and hiking trails and pontoon boat tours of the flooded cypress forest on Lake Marion, named after Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox”.

The Patriots Take Provisions and Prisoners in a Surprise Attack on a British Supply Depot.

Nestled outside the traditional bounds of the South Carolina colony is the Presbyterian church where Andrew Pickens committed his time as an elder following the Revolution. In the adjacent cemetery lie the graves of several American soldiers who had fought by Pickens' side during the war.

McLeroth and his 64th Regiment were escorting 200 recruits from Charleston to Camden when Marion, with about 700 men, surprised them at Halfway Swamp.

After an eight-day siege, this strategic outpost fell to the Americans, who used an ingenious structure called Maham’s Tower to fire down into the fort and trap the enemy.

The site of the 1780 battle of Musgrove’s Mill where a small force of Patriot militia fought and defeated a larger force of Loyalist and Provincial soldiers in a short but pivotal battle.

This last major battle of the war in the South succeeded in driving the British out of rural South Carolina.

The Battle of Camden was a devastating defeat suffered by the Americans in the British military offensive in the South.

Loyalists ambush a contingent of Patriot militia at a tavern in December of 1780, leading to a massacre