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Originally known as May River, and later as Kirk's Bluff, Bluffton was settled as a resort town where planters could escape the hot, malarial summers of lowcountry plantations. The streets were laid out in the 1830s and much of . . . — — Map (db m219594) HM
The Methodist Society, organized in Bluffton,
built the first church and parsonage on
Boundry Street in 1853. During the Civil War,
two confederate soldiers saved the
church from being burned. In 1875 the church
sold the building to the . . . — — Map (db m39840) HM
Settled in 1825, as a summer resort of rice and cotton planters, this town was incorporated in 1852. Here in 1844 was launched the protest against the Federal tariff known as the "Bluffton Movement". — — Map (db m219148) HM
Built in 1853, this was originally Bluffton Methodist Episcopal church. Organized by whites, the church's 216 members in 1861 included 181 African Americas, who were likely enslaved to its white congregants. The church caught fire during the . . . — — Map (db m218551) HM
Cyrus Garvin
Little is known of Cyrus Garvin's early life. He was likely born into slavery, possibly on a plantation of the Baynard family. Garvin is notable for having amassed considerable status and property after emancipation. In . . . — — Map (db m218662) HM
(Plaque 1)
Dedicated to
The Memory and Honor
Of All Veterans
Servicemen and Servicewoman
Who Have Given Their
Full Measure of Devotation
In the Armed Forces
Defending This Nation
[ Emblems: Army • Navy • Marine Corps • Air Force . . . — — Map (db m18236) WM
(Front text):This is the site of two schools
that served the black community of southern Beaufort County for most of the twentieth century. Bluffton Graded School, a small frame building constructed about
1900, was followed in 1954 by an . . . — — Map (db m5853) HM
This sanctuary, built 1824 as St. Luke's
Episcopal Church, housed an active
Episcopal congregation until just before
the Civil War. It was sold to the
trustees of St. Luke's Methodist
Church in 1875 and served that
congregation since. St. . . . — — Map (db m19645) HM
The name Barrel Landing (also spelled Barrell) comes from a nearby docking and landing area on the Okatie River initially used by early settlers of the Okatie community in the period following the Revolutionary War. Farmers and tradesmen used the . . . — — Map (db m15320) HM
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Bluffton, an antebellum planters' summer village, was virtually abandoned by its seasonal and year-round inhabitants when Federal forces captured Beaufort and Port Royal in November 1861. Confederate forces used it as an outpost . . . — — Map (db m219149) HM
