Hiking Through History

This battleground was the site of three British camps, attacked by Patriot troops on August 6, 1780. It was a fight primarily between countrymen.

On May 29, 1780, British commander Banastre Tarleton engaged and overwhelmed a Patriot force under the command of Abraham Buford in a dreadful defeat for the Patriots.

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

This park preserves the story of Charles Pinckney and his contributions to the U.S. Constitution, and of 18th century plantation life for free and enslaved people of Snee Farm inhabitants.

As part of their Southern Campaign, the British set their sights on taking the vital port of Charleston.

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

An ingenious Patriot deception provokes a prominent Loyalist to surrender his outpost

Completed in 1713, The Powder Magazine is South Carolina's oldest government building.

Fort Fair Lawn was a British outpost in 1780–1781 and was the target of a daring Patriot raid on November 17, 1781, and abandoned by the British a week later.

The Patriots launch a misguided attack on British troops retreating from an aborted raid on Charleston

Former Plantation of Henry Laurens: Merchant, Slave Trader, South Carolina Statesman, and Father of Revolutionary War Soldier John Laurens.

Huck’s Defeat occurred on July 12, 1780. The battleground is on the site of Historic Brattonsville, a former colonial plantation.