Thomas Heyward, Jr.

House, circa 1803

A South Carolina Signer of the

Declaration of Independence

Has Been Placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Meeting Street and Lamboll ...

General John Coffee

Through his personal and business relationship with Andrew Jackson, Gen. Coffee led Jackson's cavalry in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 and became a celebrated American hero.

Inducted 2007

City of Florence

Walk of Honor

Marker is on Hightower Pl..

Courtesy ...

Lower South Grape Creek School

Area settlers built a log schoolhouse 1.5 miles south of here in 1871 along South Grape Creek. It was part of Luckenbach School Precinct No. 3 until 1889, when it was renamed Lower South Grape Creek and began to serve ...

Seaford

Town laid out, 1799. Then called “Hooper’s Landing.” First incorporated 1865. Seaford Academy located here from 1819 until some time before Civil War. Rev. Leonidas Polk, later Episcopal Bishop and Major General in Confederate Army was student at Academy. Home ...

Upper Forge Site

Between here and the creek stood the forge. A low stone dam diverted water to power the bellows and hammer. Mount Misery, rising behind you, provided wood for charcoal. During the encampment, a road to the forge cut through the ...

Major General George Washington Goethals' Home

1888~1907

The great engineering genius of the Panama Canal lived at this site from 1888 until 1907.

As a young lieutenant, Gothals was sent to Florence to speed up the work on the Muscle Shoals Canal Project which effectively by~passed the serious ...

Forty & Eight Boxcar

This car is one of 49 given to the American people by the citizens of France in thanks for aid rendered during and after World War II. Utilized for hauling military cargo during two world wars, they were known for ...

Seaford Hundred

Detached from Northwest Fork Hundred

by Act of General Assembly, 1869.

Northwest Fork Hundred, originally

claimed by Maryland, then embraced

all territory west of Northwest Fork.

Delaware obtained undisputed title in

1775, upon confirmation of Mason and

Dixon Line.

Marker is ...

Dudley's Massacre

Here, on May 5, 1813, Col. Dudley's troops spiked the British artillery besieging Fort Meigs; but, in the enthusiasm of victory they were led into an ambush where over 600 were lost.

Marker is on River Road 0.1 miles north of ...

William Christopher Handy

Born in Florence in 1873, W.C. Handy wrote some of the country's most recognizable blues music such as the "St. Louis Blues." He became internationally known as the "Father of the Blues."

Inducted 2007

City of Florence

Walk of Honor

Marker can be ...