When the South Carolina Public Service Authority was clearing the lands for the Santee Cooper Lakes, and removing buildings and other things man had erected during his two and a half centuries in upper Berkeley, there were numerous small items of a . . . — — Map (db m54776) HM
Front Honoring Berkeley County Confederate Soldiers “Deo Vindice” J B Adkins, S Adkins, S Alexander, J Armstrong, J F Avinger, E Ball, I Ball, J M Ball, J Ball, W J Ball, A Ballentine, J J Ballentine, L E Ballentine, W J . . . — — Map (db m54848) HM
The Berkeley County Museum and Heritage Center opened its doors in 1992. Built to resemble the Lowcountry architecture of the Colonial period, the museum structure includes details such as flooring taken from a 150-year-old Darlington railroad . . . — — Map (db m206632) HM
(Front text) Berkeley Training High School, located here from 1955 to 1970, replaced a four-room wood school 1 mi. S at Main St. and Old U.S. Hwy. 52. That school, built in 1918-1920 at a cost of $6,700, had been partially funded by the . . . — — Map (db m41606) HM
Parish Church of St. John's Berkeley, founded by Act of Assembly November 30, 1706. Church erected in 1712. Burned by forest fire in 1775 and restored. Burned by Col. Coates of the British Army in 1781 and again restored. Burned again by forest fire . . . — — Map (db m23453) HM
This Confederate vessel revolutionized the concepts of war at sea with a torpedo attack on the New Ironsides in Charleston Harbor on October 5, 1863.
Constructed on Stoney Landing Plantation, Berkeley County, on which lands this full . . . — — Map (db m84713) HM WM
After Eutaw Springs, the British retreated to their post at Fair Lawn Plantation. In November 1781, Brig. Gen. Francis Marion sent Col. Hezekiah Maham with 180 horsemen and Col. Isaac Shelby with 200 mountain riflemen to eliminate British foraging . . . — — Map (db m53885) HM
[Front] Berkeley Training High School, first called Dixie Training School, stood here from 1920 until the 1980s. The first public school for blacks in Moncks Corner was founded in 1880. It held classes in local churches until its first . . . — — Map (db m29133) HM
Fairlawn Plantation Fairlawn Barony, sometimes called “Fair-Lawn,” was granted to Peter Colleton, whose father John had been one of the original Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony. John’s grandson John (1679-1754), known as . . . — — Map (db m53881) HM
First site of Monck's Corner, where the road to the Congarees branched off from this road. Founded by Thomas Monck in 1735. Relocated on the railroad about 1856.
Here about 3:30 A.M. April 13, 1780, Col. Wm. Washington's Light Dragoons were . . . — — Map (db m33664) HM
Fair Lawn Plantation was an enormous property granted to Sir Peter Colleton, oldest son of Sir John Colleton, one of the original eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony. During the Revolutionary War, the British army first occupied the . . . — — Map (db m53883) HM
This land, part of Fairlawn Barony and known as Little Landing, was bought in 1767 by Sedgwick Lewis. His daughter Sarah married Keating Simons. They acquired the land in 1774 and are presumed to have built the present plantation house. Tradition . . . — — Map (db m29132) HM
Old Moncks Corner was near the intersection of Hwy 17A and Hwy 52. Old Moncks Corner was abandoned in 1856 when the North-Eastern Railroad was run from Charleston to Bonneau. A railroad depot was placed at the northwest corner of Main St. (formerly . . . — — Map (db m223939) HM
Originally granted to Sir Peter Colleton in 1679. Acquired in 1712 by Thomas Broughton, who erected the present mansion, said to be modeled after Seaton Hall in England, in 1714. Thomas Broughton was speaker of the Commons House of Assembly from . . . — — Map (db m29130) HM
Here was located the provincial town of Moncks Corner, deriving its name from Thomas Monck, an Englishman, who in 1735 purchased Mitten Plantation, and upon whose land the town was settled. It became an important commercial center prior to the . . . — — Map (db m23312) HM
Named in 1980 in honor of a distinguished South Carolininian
Member, South Carolina House of Representatives, 1938-42
Member South Carolina Senate, 1943 -
Chairman, Senate Finance Committee, 1972 -
Because of his outstanding . . . — — Map (db m23901) HM
This canal, twenty-two miles in length, connects the Santee and Cooper Rivers. Chartered in 1786, construction was commenced in 1793, and completed in 1800, under the direction of Col. John Christian Senf, a native of Sweden, as Chief Engineer. The . . . — — Map (db m23577) HM
This canal, twenty-two miles in length, connects the Santee and Cooper Rivers. It was chartered by Act of March 22,1786, with capital of £100,000 sterling. Construction began in 1793, and the canal was c ompleted in 1800, under the direction of . . . — — Map (db m23657) HM
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St. James, Goose Creek Chapel of Ease
One of two chapels of ease for St. James, Goose Creek Parish stood here on the road to Moncks Corner, about 7 miles from the 1719 parish church. The chapel of ease was a brick building . . . — — Map (db m26255) HM
The Stony Landing House was built on land which was once part of the 12,000 acre Fairlawn Barony. Fairlawn was granted to Sir Peter Colleton, son of Lords Proprietor John Colleton, on September 7, 1678. John H. Dawson purchased 2,319 acres on . . . — — Map (db m23088) HM
Here in 1863, was constructed the Confederate semi-submersible torpedo boat, "Little David", the first of its type. It was designed by Dr. St. Julien Ravenel, and built with funds raised by Theodore D. Stoney. — — Map (db m23048) HM
The Colleton Family
The Colleton family was the only one of all the privince's original proprietors to cast their fortune in South Carolina by establishing a family seat and actual residence here. None of the seven other owners even . . . — — Map (db m206731) HM
Near this point was the SW corner of Wadboo Barony, a 12,000 acre tract about 4 miles square, granted in 1683 to James Colleton, son of an original Lord Proprietor, as part of the land due him as a landgrave of Carolina. Colleton's heirs were . . . — — Map (db m23066) HM
Wadboo was a Native American name given to the enormous landholding of James Colleton, a son of Sir John Colleton, who was one of the original eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony. Called a barony according to the Proprietors’ plan . . . — — Map (db m53891) HM
[Front] Wassamassaw, with several variant spellings during the colonial era, is a Native American word thought to mean “connecting water.” It first referred to the large cypress swamp here, but eventually referred to the community that grew . . . — — Map (db m29135) HM
