Image of the park sign at Rugeley's Mill State Park with the title "Pursued Beyond the Battlefield" — Historical Marker Database

Battlefield

Rugeley's Mill

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

Shape of the state of South Carolina with red dot showing the location of the Battle of Rugeley's Mill

2500 Flat Rock Road Camden, SC 29020

Know Before You Go

Today, the former site of Clermont plantation, located near the intersection of Flat Rock Creek and Grannies Quarters Creek north of Camden, South Carolina, where the Battle of Rugeley’s Mill took place on December 4, 1780, is uninhabited. A historical sign detailing the battle can be found along the interpretive trail series at Battle of Camden National Historic Landmark near Flat Rock Road.

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