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Lancaster, SC
Programs and Guided Tours: Living history programs, including the Life of the Waxhaws Lantern Tour and the Andrew Jackson Birthday Celebration, are scheduled throughout the year. Please check our...
South Carolina
Living History Sites
Camden, SC
Offering visitors the opportunity to engage in history through demonstrations like blacksmithing or brickmaking, hearing our farm manager discuss 18th century agriculture, or touring our historic...
South Carolina
Living History Sites
Mt Pleasant, SC
Exploring The Gullah Culture “Exploring The Gullah Culture” is a unique presentation where that difference can be experienced firsthand. Boone Hall is the only plantation in the Charleston area to...
South Carolina
Living History Sites
McConnells, SC
Learn how people farmed the land, cooked their food, and entertained themselves in the 18th and 19th centuries through interpreters in period clothing. These historical activities and others are...
South Carolina
Living History Sites
Blacksburg, SC
Visit the Living History Farm, a replica of a mid-19th century Yeoman Farm. The farm has a house, barn, cotton gin, farm animals, blacksmith and weave shop as well as a garden.
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Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens
Mt Pleasant, SC
Mt Pleasant, SC
Uncovering History
We invite you to visit the preserved locations along the Liberty Trail and to immerse
yourself in the extraordinary events that determined the fate of a nation.
Exploring History
We invite you to visit the preserved locations along the Liberty Trail and to immerse yourself
in the extraordinary events that determined the fate of a nation.
Battlefield
Turbeville, SC
A surprise Patriot attack on Loyalist recruits is a blow to the British
State/County Park | Battlefield
Blacksburg, SC
The Piedmont’s Kings Mountain State Park has miles of forested trails perfect for supreme Kings Mountain hiking, two fishing lakes, and sits adjacent to Kings Mountain National Military Park, one of many national park Revolutionary War sites.
State/County Park | Historic House
McClellanville, SC
This 18th-century plantation home, on the grounds of the Hampton Plantation State Historic Site, served as a place of refuge for Francis Marion who hid here from when British troops.
Battlefield |
Camden, SC
Patriot Leader Nathanael Greene Is repulsed but not defeated in his campaign to chase the British from the South Carolina backcountry
Historic Site | Gardens & Grounds
Charlestown, SC
Middleton Place is America’s Oldest Landscaped Gardens and home to a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Historic Site
Pineville, SC
Francis Marion was a skilled military leader during the American Revolutionary War, known for his guerilla tactics and strategic maneuvers in the Southern Campaign. His contributions to the war effort and his enduring legacy as a symbol of American resilience and military ingenuity remain today.
National Park | Historic Site
Huger, SC
The Francis Marion is a forest literally steeped in history. Marion, dubbed the “Swamp Fox” by the British troops whose supply lines he disrupted with surprise attacks from the swamps.
State/County Park | Historic Site
Charleston, SC
The White Point Garden offers incredible views that span across the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. Fort Sumter, Castle Pinckney, and the Sullivan Island Lighthouse can all be spotted in the distance. The Defenders of Fort Moultrie, a monument honoring South Carolinian soldiers during the Battle of Sullivan's Island is centrally located.
Battlefield | Historic Site
Charleston, SC
As part of their Southern Campaign, the British set their sights on taking the vital port of Charleston.
Battlefield |
Camden, SC
The Battle of Camden was a devastating defeat suffered by the Americans in the British military offensive in the South.
Battlefield
Eutawville, SC
This last major battle of the war in the South succeeded in driving the British out of rural South Carolina.
Battlefield | Historic Site
Camden, SC
A former British headquarters, explore the reconstructed Kershaw/Cornwallis House, British redoubts, and programs about colonial life.