Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m149425) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m149953) HM
All Gave Some – Some Gave All
This building will forever serve as a monument
to those who proudly served and protected their country.
Dedicated by
Florence County Council
Roger M. Poston . . . — — Map (db m149486) WM
This monument is presented to the people of Florence
for their exceptional hospitality and kindness.
Sculpted in memory of my parents -
Fannie and Marcus Palkovich
Survivors of Concentration Camps Auschwitz
and Mauthausen and . . . — — Map (db m149808) WM
American Legion Post #1 This post, organized in May 1919 and chartered by national headquarters in June 1919, was the first American Legion post in S.C. Florence County veterans J.D. Smyser, R.B. Fulton, and N.S. Lachicotte represented S.C. at . . . — — Map (db m38025) HM
In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near here. The unarmed 7,600-lb., 10'8"-long bomb was aboard a B-47E bomber on a training mission headed for England. Its high-explosive trigger detonated . . . — — Map (db m132036) HM
These European Sessile Oak trees from Belleau Wood Battlefield in France are a living memorial to honor those 1,811 Marines, Soldiers, and Sailors who perished defending freedom during the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918. Let these trees also . . . — — Map (db m222622) WM
Jews have lived in Florence since the city’s founding in the 1850s and were among its early civic leaders. Local Jews first formally organized in 1887 as the Florence Hebrew Benevolent Association. The group’s mission was to promote community and . . . — — Map (db m224005) HM
Brooke Rifled Cannon, VI.4-inch
S-53
1864
Confederate Naval Foundry & Ordnance Works
Selma, Alabama
10,600 pounds
142” length
On loan from United States General Services Administration
The VI.4-inch Brooke has been . . . — — Map (db m168230) HM
AMVETS dedicated this Carillon as a
living memorial to America’s Veterans
who served their country honorably
for the cause of freedom
June 6, 1987
Florence National Cemetery
Florence South Carolina
“… As these . . . — — Map (db m149439) WM
Marker front:
First organized as a chapel in 1843 by the Rev. N.P. Tillinghast of Trinity Church, Society Hill, this church was formally established as Christ Church, Mars Bluff, in 1856. The Rev. Augustus Moore, who took over the chapel in . . . — — Map (db m20488) HM
On March 3-4, 1960, members of the Florence Youth branch of the NAACP staged protest demonstrations here at the former S.H. Kress store. Wilson H.S. students marched from
Trinity Baptist Church to sit at the store's lunch counter, . . . — — Map (db m209477) HM
(Front):
One each side of this marker lie the remains of approximately 2300 Union soldiers who died as prisoners in the Florence Prison Stockade, between September 1864 and February 1865. The Stockade was located across Cemetery Street on . . . — — Map (db m45963) HM
Side A In January of 1778 Ebenezer Baptist Church was constituted by pioneer minister Evan Pugh and Richard Furman, for whom Furman University is named. Admitted to the Charleston Baptist Association in 1778, the church was incorporated in . . . — — Map (db m38022) HM
In 1949, Ebony Guest House, a prominent local tourist home for African Americans, opened at this site. It was owned and operated by Mary C. Holmes (1900-1981), a native of Williamsburg Co. who moved to Florence in the 1920s. She lived next door . . . — — Map (db m224007) HM
The brick house at the corner of Palmetto St. and Dargan St. was built c.1919 as the home of Dr. Frank Hilton McLeod (1868-1944). In 1906, McLeod founded the Florence Infirmary on W. Cheves St., adjacent to his personal residence. To allow for the . . . — — Map (db m218439) HM
Florence Depot The original depot named Florence was built here in 1852, where the Wilmington & Manchester RR crossed present-day Hoffmeyer Rd. It was named for Florence Harllee (1848-1927), daughter of the railroad's president, William W. . . . — — Map (db m38023) HM
Florence High School. This three-story building was constructed in 1921 to house Florence High School. A fireproof facility, it was designed by architect William J. Wilkins and built of brick and reinforced concrete by contractors Haynsworth . . . — — Map (db m224003) HM
The Florence National Cemetery
established in 1865
is this day re-dedicated
to the memory of all the
patriotic men and women
who answered their
country's call to service
their inspiring contribution
will help preserve in the
. . . — — Map (db m45967) HM
National Cemetery
In 1865, the U.S. Army quartermaster general designated the original 3.76-acre prison cemetery as Florence National Cemetery. It contains not only the bodies of Union prisoners who died in Florence, but soldiers removed . . . — — Map (db m149474) HM
Florence Prison Stockade
In early September 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army took Atlanta and came within striking range of the large Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. he Confederate government responded to . . . — — Map (db m149984) HM
This boulder was placed here
by the United Daughters of
the Confederacy of
Florence, S.C. January 27, 1947
To record the fact that
directly south of this spot
was situated a stockade where
6,500 Federal prisoners
were . . . — — Map (db m45962) HM
Florence Veterans Park Dedicated November 11, 2008 to all Pee Dee area veterans who have proudly served in the United States Armed Forces. Committee Members In recognition of their vision and commitment to this worthy project. Rick Walden, . . . — — Map (db m52256) HM
Erected in 1971 by the state of South Carolina as a memorial to General Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" whose guerrilla war tactics during American Revolution made him the chief scourge of the British in eastern South Carolina — — Map (db m52273) HM
(side 1)
Frank Mandeville Rogers Jr. (1857-1945) of Florence Co. was influential in the introduction of Bright Leaf Tobacco in S.C. In 1884-85, he raised, cured, and sold a plot of tobacco on his Mars Bluff plantation, proving its . . . — — Map (db m222136) HM
The Gold Star Family Monument recognizes the pain, grief, and agony that Gold Star Family members endure with the death of a parent, child, spouse, sibling, or other loved ones who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the United States . . . — — Map (db m149949) WM
(side 1)
This house, built as a one-room tenant house ca. 1890 and later enlarged several times, features a narrow front porch and rear shed room addition typical of many tenant houses on plantations and farms in the post-Civil War . . . — — Map (db m223535) HM
During the Civil War, the Confederate Navy operated a large and well-guarded shipyard on the east bank of the great Pee Dee River at Mars Bluff, Marion County. The largest vessel constructed at the site was the 150 ft. wooden gunship CSS Peedee, . . . — — Map (db m149488) HM
Henry Timrod (1828-1867), Civil War era poet and SC native, taught school in this building in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the Civil War. He had been visiting his sister Emily in Mars Bluff, later Florence County, in early . . . — — Map (db m222152) HM
The African Americans who built the two hewn-timber cabins that stand 200 yds. S. on Wallace Woods Road were brought to Mars Bluff as slaves in 1836. They lived in these cabins on the cotton plantation of J. Eli Gregg, in what was then Marion . . . — — Map (db m18203) HM
(side 1)
The 200 and 300 blocks of N. Dargan St. were once the center of a thriving African American business district in Florence. A number of black-owned businesses operated here, including restaurants, barber shops, funeral parlors . . . — — Map (db m222143) HM
Dedicated to the men and
women who have served in our
nation’s Armed Forces and to
their families who have provided
fidelity and loving support.
Home Safe was designed and sculpted by Florence resident and internationally . . . — — Map (db m149714) WM
Front
This church, organized ca. 1770, is the first Presbyterian church in what is now Florence County. Many of its founding families came to S.C. from Scotland and Ireland. The first church here, a frame building, stood across Old River . . . — — Map (db m37328) HM
In Honor of
All Korean
War Veterans
Pusan • Inchon • Chosin Reservoir • Pork Chop Hill
Old Baldy • Outpost Harry, and Heartbreak Ridge
Were All Crucial Battles Where Brave Men
and Women Served in the Treacherous . . . — — Map (db m149698) WM
(side 1)
This Art Moderne house, completed in 1939 for Joseph Maner Lawton, has housed the Florence Museum since 1953. It was designed by Sanborn Chuse, then an engineering student influenced by Moderne architecture in France and later a . . . — — Map (db m222582) HM
This is the center of Mars Bluff, a rural community 8 mi. across in both directions, bounded by the Great Pee Dee River, Black Creek, & Jefferies Creek. A ferry across the Great Pee Dee began operation in 1767. Patriot and Loyalist militia later . . . — — Map (db m223538) HM
(side 1)
From the 18th century until c. 1920, African American farmers grew rice in nearby fields. While not a major cash crop in this part of S.C., rice was a staple on local plantations, where enslaved people grew it using African . . . — — Map (db m222576) HM
(front)
The McLeod Infirmary was located here in 1906, inspired by the need to provide access to local medical and surgical care for people in the region. Frank Hilton McLeod was born in Richmond Co., N.C. in 1868 and graduated from the . . . — — Map (db m218364) HM
Born in Darlington District in 1845, this Confederate War veteran witnessed the firing attack on the Union steamer Star of the West, as it attempted to reinforce Ft. Sumter Jan. 9, 1861. He participated in skirmishes at Tullifinny River near . . . — — Map (db m38019) HM
Side A This church, founded in 1806 in what was Darlington District until Florence County was founded in 1888, grew out of an early Methodist “Society.” Rev. Thomas Humphries (d. 1820), who served this and other area circuits, . . . — — Map (db m38024) HM
(Front):
In honor of all
American
Prisoners of War
and
Missing in Action
Dedicated by
Rolling Thunder®
South Carolina Chapter 4 Florence
2008
(Reverse):
POW✯MIA emblem, WWI, . . . — — Map (db m52250) HM
This monument contains limestone damaged in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It was recovered from the west facade of the Pentagon and is placed in remembrance of the 2,977 individuals killed in the attacks on our homeland. 184 perished at . . . — — Map (db m52253) WM
The Dreadnaught Battleship USS South Carolina (BB 26) was in service from 1 July 1908 – 15 Dec 1921. She was the third of four ships that have been named for the Palmetto State. During the early part of World War I, the USS South Carolina . . . — — Map (db m166867) HM WM
Just west of this point on March 5, 1865 a skirmish took place between a Regiment of Sherman's Cavalry and Cavalrymen from the Regiments of Wheeler and Colcock. The Federals were defeated and hastened to join Sherman's main army enroute to North . . . — — Map (db m222127) HM WM
(Front)
Built C.S.N. Navy Yard, Pee Dee, S. C. 1864
Burned to avoid capture March 15, 1865.
“No Nation rose so white and fair, None fell so pure of crime.”
(Reverse)
Boulder Donated by Winnsboro Granite Co.
Model . . . — — Map (db m222587) HM
To the six million Jews and countless people of other faiths driven to pitiless death …victims of merciless hate…
Their very presence on earth was begrudged them because they were a symbol of god's eternal law… may they never be forgotten… . . . — — Map (db m224004) WM
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
United States Marine Corps established Nov. 10, 1775
Detachment 410 chartered Oct. 14, 1977
Monument dedicated May 1, 2010
The Julian D. Dusenbury MCL detachment 410 honors all Marines who served . . . — — Map (db m52249) HM
On this corner the women of the Pee Dee Section established in 1861 a home for the relief of passing Confederate soldiers.
In 1862 this home was assigned to the Confederate government for a Wayside Hospital with Dr. Theodore Dargan as . . . — — Map (db m222128) HM WM
(side 1)
Trinity Baptist organized in 1868, with Rev. Wesley J. Parnell (d. 1873) serving as its first pastor. The church initially met at the home of members Jacob and Sarah Lindsey on Front St. before obtaining a property at the corner . . . — — Map (db m222132) HM
(front)
Let this monument serve as a reminder of the men and women who have served in our nation’s Air Force. Their loyalty and their sacrifice will never be forgotten.
(rear)
"To all who wore the Air Force Blue
To all the . . . — — Map (db m222630) WM
Dedicated to the Men and Women of the
United States Coast Guard
Semper Paratus
Always Prepared
US Coast Guard Cutter Comanche (WPG-76) Anchor
• The 165-foot “A” class cutter, Comanche, was . . . — — Map (db m149928) WM
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a US Navy Pennsylvania Class Super Dreadnaught Battleship built in the second decade of the 20th century and named in honor of our 48th state. She was used for training, escort duty, and as a representative of US interests . . . — — Map (db m222615) HM WM
A veteran of the Revolution, William Gee served as a private with the Continental Line of N.C. and moved to this area before 1797. He was one of the original members of the Washington Society, organized in 1803 to establish an academy on Jeffries . . . — — Map (db m38021) HM
Marker Front:
William Henry Johnson (1901-1970), one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century, was born nearby on Cox Street. His family later lived on the corner of Cheves and Kemp Streets. In 1918, at the age of . . . — — Map (db m20490) HM
President of Wilmington & Manchester Railroad and a founder of the city of Florence, Harllee (1812-1897) was also a general in the SC Militia, signer of Ordinance of Secession, Lt. Governor (1860-62), member of the General Assembly, and president . . . — — Map (db m37307) HM
Wilson School Wilson School, later Wilson High School, was the first public school in Florence, and stood here from 1866 to 1906. At first a private school for black children, it was established by the New England Branch of the Freedmen’s . . . — — Map (db m38026) HM
Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori
In Memory of the Service Men
From Florence County, South Carolina
Who gave their lives in the World War
1914 – 1918
To The End That Liberty
Should not perish from the Earth
White . . . — — Map (db m149858) WM
Dedicated to the Men and Women of Florence County who answered the call of America in World War II *and* In memory of those who gave their young lives for God and Country Placed by The United Daughters of the Confederacy of Florence, South Carolina . . . — — Map (db m52255) HM
These pines dedicated with reverence as a living memorial to those who served in World War II Wildwood Garden Club February 2, 1945 — — Map (db m54662) HM
World War II was the most devastating war in history. Savage combat transpired 1939-1945 between two alliances, the majority of the world's countries & 100,000,000 military personnel. The consequences were massive destruction & 70,000,000 - . . . — — Map (db m222631) HM WM
In 1925 U. S. Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover, later U. S.
President, inspected Fred Young's
dairy farm following recognition of
one of its Jerseys, Sensation's
Mikado's Millie, as a world champion
butter-fat producer. The house . . . — — Map (db m11178) HM
