On Old River Road (State Highway 14-76) 1 mile south of Governor Richardson Road, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
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Encounter at Halfway Swamp
On December 12, 1780, according to tradition, British Maj. Robert McLeroth was surprised near here by Gen. Francis Marion. The British first agreed to a staged combat with twenty men on each side, . . . — — Map (db m43328) HM
On Old River Road (State Highway 14-76) 1 mile south of Governor Richardson Road, on the right when traveling south.
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Encounter at Halfway Swamp
On December 12, 1780, according to tradition, British Maj. Robert McLeroth was surprised near here by Gen. Francis Marion. The British first agreed to a staged combat with twenty men on each . . . — — Map (db m227896) HM
On Old River Road at Elliots Landing Road, on the right when traveling south on Old River Road.
In December 1781, Maj. Robert McLeroth and the 64th Regiment were conducting newly-arrived British army recruits of the Royal Fusiliers from Charleston to the High Hills of Santee. Learning of McLeroth’s movement, Col. Francis Marion led some 700 . . . — — Map (db m227715) HM
On Old River Road (State Highway 14-76), on the right when traveling south.
Three hundred yards west is the site of one of the earliest graveyards in St. Mark's Parish.
In the cemetery are buried Richard Richardson, Brigadier in the Revolution, James Burchell Richardson, South Carolina Governor 1802-04, and John Peter . . . — — Map (db m23495) HM