Barnet's Tavern

Photographed by Mike Stroud, September 29, 2009

1. Barnet's Tavern Marker

Inscription. Near this spot stood Barnet's Tavern, called the Forty Five Mile House, indicating its distance from Charleston. Here was the muster ground of the Eutaw State Volunteers, a company raised in 1833, to support the Ordinance of Nullification. From this tavern, on Sept. 11, 1781, Gen. Green sent to the president of Congress, dispatches announcing the Battle of Eutaw Springs.

Erected 1929. (Marker Number 8-00.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Notable Buildings • War, US Revolutionary. A significant historical month for this entry is September 1793.

Location. Marker is missing. It was located near 33° 20.668′ N, 80° 8.558′ W. Marker was in Cross, South Carolina, in Berkeley County. It was at the intersection of Ranger Road (State Highway 132) and Old Highway 6, on the right when traveling north on Ranger Road. Touch for map. Marker was in this post office area: Cross SC 29436, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker was in the Lowcountry

and in Santee Cooper Country.

It was also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it was in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it found itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this location, measured as the crow flies: Cross Post Office (approx. 1.2 miles away); Gen. William Moultrie (approx. 1.6 miles away); Moss Grove (approx. 1.9 miles away); Friendship Methodist Church (approx. 3.4 miles away); Thomas Sumpter’s Store

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(approx. 5½ miles away); Berkeley County (approx. 6.3 miles away); Village of Eadytown (approx. 6.4 miles away); Francis Marion / Francis Marion's Grave (approx. 7.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Cross.

Other markers no longer nearby. Cherokee Path (was about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line but has been replaced with another marker now near it); Thomas Sumter's Store (was approx. 5.1 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Also see . . . South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (November 24, 1832). The Ordinance of Nullification declared the tariff of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state borders of South Carolina. (Submitted on October 12, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.)

Barnet's Tavern Marker as seen along Ranger Road image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mike Stroud, September 29, 2009

2. Barnet's Tavern Marker as seen along Ranger Road

Barnet's Tavern Marker as seen from Old Number Six intersection image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mike Stroud, September 29, 2009

3. Barnet's Tavern Marker as seen from Old Number Six intersection

Credits. This page was last revised on March 25, 2025. It was originally submitted on October 12, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 2,719 times since then and 40 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on October 12, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.