Witherspoon’s Ferry: Francis Marion Takes Command

Late in the summer of 1780, Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates led a Continental army toward South Carolina to attempt to roll back the British conquest of the province. As Gates prepared to meet the British at Camden, he sent Col. ...

Wadboo Barony: Francis Marion’s Last Headquarters

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’ ...

Francis Marion’s Grave

(North face)

Sacred to the Memory

of

Genl. Francis Marion,

Who departed his life, on the 27th of February, 1795,

in the sixty-third year of his age

Deeply regretted by all his fellow-citizens.

History will record his worth and rising generations

embalm his memory ...

Birthplace of Dr. James Marion Sims

About 1¾ miles west of this spot stood the house in which Dr. James Marion Sims was born on January 25, 1813. Father of modern gynecology, Dr. Sims was honored by the American and by European governments for his service ...

Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.

1855-1925

Wisconsin's most famous political leader and greatest statesman. Born on a farm in Primrose Township, Dane County, he was the first native son and first University of Wisconsin graduate to become Wisconsin Governor. He rose from Dane County District Attorney ...

Marion

The community center here was known as Royal Oak, home of Arthur Campbell, frontiersman. The place became the county seat when Smyth County was formed and was named for Francis Marion, revolutionary hero. It was incorporated in 1832; the courthouse ...

Site of Marion Packing Co.

The ruins of this rendering vat mark the location of the Marion Packing Co. (spelled “Meriam” in some records), one of the dozen or more meat packing plants built in the Rockport-Fulton area in the 1860s and 1870s to process ...

Marion's Camp at Snow's Island

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During the American Revolution Gen. Francis Marion (ca. 1732 ~ 1795), the most successful of the Patriot partisan leaders, made his camp and headquarters about 1.8 mi. SSW on Snow's Island. The island, named for settlers James and William Snow, ...

Marion County / Marion Courthouse

Marker Front:

Marion County

Originally a part of colonial Craven County and Georgetown District of 1769, it was created as Liberty County by an Act of the General Assembly in 1785.

The name was changed to Marion District in 1798 and to Marion ...

Marion Presbyterian Church

David E.Frierson of Harmony Presbytery first preached here at Marion Courthouse in 1841. The church was organized in Feb. 1852 with six charter members: Archibald and Margaret Carmichael of Little Pee Dee Church, Rebecca E. Frierson of Great Pee Dee ...