Halfway Swamp

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

Visit Site

South Carolina Shape of the state of South Carolina with a dot showing the location of Halfway Swamp

Old River Rd Pinewood, SC 29125

Know Before You Go

A sawmill operated in Halfway Swamp until 1945, when the local power company appropriated some of the Elliot family’s land to build Lake Marion. Now the Elliots’ descendants rent boats for touring the adjacent cypress swamp that served as the setting for the December 1781 skirmish between Patriot commander Francis Marion, “The Swamp Fox,” and British Major Robert McLeroth.