Printer John Miller

This London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina. Later in Pendleton he founded Miller's Weekly Messenger the first Up Country newspaper. His body lies buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery.

Marker is at the intersection of East Queen Street (South Carolina Route 88) and North Broad Streets, on the right when traveling north on East Queen Street.

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