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Museums/Visitor Centers

Explore the past of South Carolina through objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest.

States of Interest:
South Carolina
Museum/Visitor Centers
Gaffney, SC

Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center and Museum of North Carolina Minerals, located along the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail at Gillespie Gap. Featuring displays about the history and...

South Carolina
Museum/Visitor Centers
Ninety Six, SC

Open Wednesday-Sunday from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, closed Monday and Tuesday. Museum contains a reproduction 3-pounder cannon, artifacts found on the battlefield, and other exhibits. "Ninety Six...

Massachusetts
Museum/Visitor Centers
Lincoln, MA

The North Bridge visitor center is closed for the season and will reopen in 2025. It is located about 500 yards from the North Bridge battle site. Here you can see exhibits about the battle, watch a...

Massachusetts
Museum/Visitor Centers
Lincoln, MA

The North Bridge visitor center is closed for the season and will reopen in 2025. It is located about 500 yards from the North Bridge battle site. Here you can see exhibits about the battle, watch a...

Massachusetts
Museum/Visitor Centers
Concord, MA

The North Bridge visitor center is closed for the season and will reopen in 2025. It is located about 500 yards from the North Bridge battle site. Here you can see exhibits about the battle, watch a...

Massachusetts
Museum/Visitor Centers
Concord, MA

The North Bridge visitor center is closed for the season and will reopen in 2025. It is located about 500 yards from the North Bridge battle site. Here you can see exhibits about the battle, watch a...

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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

Historic Site | Historic House
Clemson, SC

Built in 1716 for Paul de St. Julien in Berkeley County. The house was later dismantled and moved to Clemson University and functions as a house museum.

Historic Site |
Somerville, NJ

This parsonage was constructed in the 1750s and housed the reverend of the Dutch congregation in what is now modern-day Somerville.

Battlefield
Moncks Corner, SC

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

Historic Site
Charleston, SC

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

Battlefield
Clarendon County, SC

Patriot Francis Marion earns his famous nickname — "The Swamp Fox”— after a futile chase by British Commander Banastre Tarleton

Historic Site | State/County Park
Washington Crossing, PA

Located on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, this park commemorates Washington's planning of his famous crossing that re-ignited the spark of liberty.

National Park | Battlefield
Concord , MA

The site of the famous "Shot Heard Around the World," the Old North Bridge served as the flashpoint of the American Revolution. To this day, historians debate who fired the first shot, here, which led to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Battlefield | State/County Park
Trenton, NJ

Also known as the Battle of Assunpink Creek, Washington thwarted Cornwallis yet again, just south of the town of Trenton where they had fought only days prior.

Battlefield | Historic Site
Moncks Corner, SC

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.

Historic Site | Historic House
Charleston, SC

In 1780, after the British occupied Charleston during the American Revolutionary War, the Brewton house was used as the British headquarters for Henry Clinton.

Historic Site | Historic House
Georgetown, SC

Built circa 1740, Hopsewee Plantation was one of the South’s major rice plantations and the birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr., one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.