Peay's Ferry / Peay's Ferry Road
(Front)
A ferry was operated on the Wateree River, at a point about 4 mi. W, as early as 1775. In 1808 ferry rights were granted to Thomas Starke, Jr. and Austin Ford Peay (d. 1841), planters with property in Fairfield and Kershaw Districts. Peay received ferry rights for another 7 years in 1825. Peay served in the S.C. House between 1812 and 1831 and in the S.C. Senate between 1832 and 1839.
(Reverse)
The road from the Wateree River E to Liberty Hill was known as Peay's Ferry Road by 1820. In early 1865, elements of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman's Federal army crossed at the ferry on their way to Camden and Cheraw. In 1919, when the Wateree Power Co. completed a dam across the Wateree River, the ferry site and most of the road were flooded. This is the only extant portion of the old road.
Marker is at the intersection of South Carolina Route 97 and Peay's Ferry Road, on the left when traveling north on State Route 97.
Courtesy hmdb.org
