Old Beauty Spot

Here stood the first Methodist church of Marlboro County, a single log cabin built in 1783. Here Bishop Francis Asbury presided over and preached at an early Quarterly Conference, held on February 23, 1788. Camp meetings were held here 1810-1842. ...

The Homestead Heritage Center

The Homestead Act of 1862 affected millions of lives in the United States and across the world. Homestead National Monument of America exists to document and present these powerful stories of transformation.

The Homestead Heritage Center keeps these stories relevant in ...

Moody Cemetery

Named for the Moody family, members of which were buried here 1883 to 1903. Among others interred here are John Smith Sr., Revolutionary War veteran who owned an adjacent plantation, and Enos Tart Jr., who served Marion District as Sheriff, ...

Do You Live Near a Homestead?

There’s a good chance you do – Homesteading reached three of every five states. Is yours among them?

The Homestead Act of 1862 offered people 160 acres of free land – if they were willing to live on it, farm it, ...

Socastee Methodist Church

This church, originating with services held in a brush arbor, was formally organized by 1818. Its first sanctuary, a log building, was built here soon afterwards on land donated by Philip Elkes. The cemetery, dating from the 19th century, includes ...

Capture of Island No. 10

Apr. 8. 1862

Covered by Federal gunboats, Maj. Gen. John Pope landed part of his army of 25,000 on the west shore of Madrid Bend, outflanking Confederate defenses, causing abandonment of the island. Brig. Gen. W.W. Mackall, retreating south, finding himself ...

Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church

The first Presbyterian services in this area were conducted by Rev. John Wilson in 1706. Then pastor of New Castle Presbyterian Church, Rev. Wilson came every other Sunday to minister to the many residents of this area who had immigrated ...

Third Brigade

First Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps First Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. David A. Russell

6th. Maine, 49th. (4 Cos.) 119th. Pennsylvania

5th. Wisconsin Infantry

July 2 Arrived about 4 p.m. from Manchester MD and moved to the east slope of the ...

Edmund Jenkins / Ocean Grove Cemetery

Edmund Jenkins

Edmund Jenkins, a veteran of World War I, was the first elected black Town Marshal in Mount Pleasant, and served the Town from 1920-1927. He died December 26, 1930. His gravestone is directly to the left of ...

Preserving the Palisades

Through the 1890s, quarries blasted the Palisades for stone to make gravel and concrete. The largest of these, Carpenter Brothers’ quarry, was just south of here (background photograph and B). Many thousands of tons of broken rock were taken from ...