Historic Trails Short history of South Carolina. Lucas Vasquez de Allyon of Spain attempted the first European. South Carolina coast in 1. A few Spanish missions and military. North and South Carolina were separate settlements from the. People were already living in the Albemarle Sound area near the Virginia. South Carolina grew from a settlement on the Ashley River in 1. Official. division of the two provinces came after 1. Lords Proprietors. This section of the North- South Carolina boundary was drawn in 1. The coastal Indians welcomed the English settlers as allies against. Spanish. The province of South Carolina grew, and Charleston became one of the busiest. British Empire exporting cattle, naval stores, lumber, rice, and indigo. South Carolina. was a melting pot for people of English, French, Scotch- Irish, Welsh, Jewish, Swiss, and. German stock. Slaves from Africa constituted more than half of the colonial population. Colonial South Carolina was the frontier outpost protecting English. Spain to the South and France in the Mississippi Valley. The province. was involved in three major Indian wars and four major imperial wars. Some of the earliest. American Revolution were fought here. Click on a map below to explore our most popular historic hikes. Our PDF kits include everything from transportation and trails to maps and fun quizzes. Let HistoricTrails.org help you plan your next hike! Mason-Dixon Council Historic Trails Program. The Mason-Dixon Trails program was organized by the Mason-Dixon Council, Boy Scouts of America, to provide additional outdoor program opportunities for its many members and friends. The purpose of the RIM OF THE BAY patch program is to encourage hiking and to bring into the lives of our. BSA Presidio Historic Trail. South. Carolina, with over 1. Revolutionary battle and skirmish sites, has more than can be. A British attack in 1. British forces reoccupied. Guerrilla fighting heroes such as Gen. Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox), Gen. Nathanael Greene forced. British withdrawal. If your ancestors were from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia or. Pennsylvania, they may have fought decisive battles here under Gen. Greene, shoulder to. South Carolinians. During the first half of the 1. Confederacy, and finally to the Civil War. The. aftermath of the War was poverty, compounded problems, and an excruciatingly slow. A resurgence, much like that of the post- Revolutionary period, began. World War II. Better education, a stable government, industrial expansion, and a. South Carolina. With. George Washington’s goodwill tour of 1. South. Carolina along two routes, central and coastal. Washington entered the state crossing the. Historic Trails Award: This patch is not worn on the uniform but may be worn on a jacket or patch vest or placed on blankets, backpacks, or other personal equipment. Historic Trails Award To earn the award, members of your unit must plan and participate in a historic activity. A unit historic activity requires members to: Locate a historic trail or site and study information relating to it. Historic Trails Award Overview. Cloth patch and leather patch for equipment decoration. National Historic Trails. The 19 current National Historic Trails 'follow as closely as possible and practicable the original trails or routes of travel of national historical significance.' They celebrate many aspects of our. In the late 1960s, The South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism (SCPRT) partnered with the South Carolina Department of Archives and History on a program to develop a series of historic. South Carolina near Little River where the first State Welcome Center. King’s Highway to near the ocean at Myrtle Beach from. Surfside beach. Here he returned. King’s Highway and followed it through present day Brookgreen Gardens to. Georgetown, Charleston, Ashepoo, Pocotaligo, Purrysburg on the Savannah River and into. Georgia at Savannah. Washington followed a central route on his return journey which goes. Augusta through Columbia, Camden, Lancaster, and Charlotte. This central route has. Augusta. the State House complex and the Robert Mills influence, the Camden battlefields, and. Andrew Jackson State Park near Lancaster. More than 3. 00 years of exciting history have taken place along these. South Carolina had its origin. Spanish and French. The first permanent English settlement. Charleston dates back to 1. Pirates, Indians, four Colonial Wars, the American. Revolution, the Civil War, South Carolina Rice, Indigo, and Sea Island Cotton have all. George Washington Trail Coastal Route. Little River to Myrtle Beach. This area is part of the Waccamaw Neck, long, inaccessible, and without a major port. It. was the last part of the road between Boston and Savannah to be served by stagecoach. The Old King’s Highway, only. US 1. 7, was the primary north- south connection in Washington’s. News of the battle of Concord came down this route. Conway, 1. 5 miles inward and across the Waccamaw River, was settled. There was a small settlement near Little River almost this long ago. Some grave sites were marked with Ships. Myrtle Beach to Georgetown. President James Monroe traveled this route. Roosevelt and Winston. Churchill vacationed at the tip end of the Waccamaw Neck at Hobcaw, plantation home of. Bernard Baruch. Here, Washington visited local citizens and crossed the river to. Georgetown by barge amid fanfare and ceremony. The King’s Highway in this area is. Brookgreen Gardens area. Georgetown to Charleston. This part of the state lies between two major seaports named after English Kings, George. II and Charles II, who ruled over South Carolina as a province. The first English. Bulls Bay in 1. 67. Ashley. River. Settlement later spread back into this region during the first 5. Early English families shared the Santee River Valley with French. Huguenot immigrants, among them, the forebears of the Revolutionary hero Francis Marion. Much of the area today is in the Francis Marion National Forest. Charleston to Savannah. Indians fought among themselves over the land long before European settlers arrived. When English settlers came. Indians welcomed them as allies against the Spanish. Two major Indian Wars, the Westo and the Yamassee, were fought here. During the Revolution, the land between Charleston and Savannah was. In this terrible American defeat, more than 5,0. The British stayed until December, 1. Cornwallis’s defeat at Yorktown. During the Civil War, Union forces invaded Hilton Head Island in. November, 1. 86. 1, and spent a bloody, grinding four years slogging their way up the sea. Charleston. But the city did not fall until Sherman’s. George Washington Trail Central Route. This route marks the direction President Washington went on his. South Carolina for his goodwill tour in 1. The President began his trip. North Augusta, where he was met by Revolutionary War Colonels Wade Hampton and Thomas. Taylor. North Augusta to Columbia. Heading northeast across South Carolina from North Augusta, stretch the Sandhills, which. Along this ridge, progressive travel routes of South. Carolina history have developed, from Indian footpaths to packhorse trails to a plank. President Washington described the area as a “pine barren of. De. Soto explored here in 1. Juan Pardo led a. Spanish expedition through this area from Port Royal in 1. After the 1. 71. 5 Yemassee War, British Colonel George Chicken also. Cherokee uplands. Fort Moore, near North Augusta, was established in 1. Savannah River trading center and garrison. Trader George Galphin named nearby Silver. Bluff in 1. 73. 5. Pioneer botanist John Bartram found the area an excellent field for. As early as the 1. English, French, Swiss and Germans founding pioneer townships at New. Windsor, near North Augusta, and at Saxe Gotha, west of Columbia. October, 1. 83. 3, marked the completion of the world’s longest. Charleston to Hamburg. It’s first locomotive, The Best. Friend of Charleston, was the first built in America for actual service on a railroad. A. replica may be found at the State Museum in Columbia. Mid- state garrison after 1. Congaree Fort, near present day. Columbia. This was the territory of early reformed (Calvinistic) pastor Christian Theus. Drayton and Tennent’s 1. British. Centuries of soldiers have crossed the Sand Hills, including. American forces under Generals Pickens and Sumter, blocking the British drive north; and. Lord Rawdon’s 1. 78. Ninety Six. In 1. Union forces burned Columbia, which was founded as South. Carolina’s new Capital city in 1. Consumed in the fire was the wooden State House. President had dined. Columbia to Northern State Line. Above Columbia, plantation families seeking refuge from lowland malaria built summer homes. Lightwood Knot Springs and Rice Creek Springs were popular resorts in. The important Battle of Camden saw Patriot General Gates opposing. General Cornwallis on August 1. At Hobkirk Hill in Camden, President Washington. General Greene and Lord Rawdon had their action, an. April 2. 5, 1. 78. In lower Lancaster county, see a South Carolina natural wonder. Hanging Rock. This is where Sumter, the Gamecock, fought a Revolutionary engagement in. This is also where 3,0. Methodists gathered together in 1. South. Carolina’s earliest camp meetings. Above Lancaster are the rugged Waxhaws, a land of pines, pastures. In 1. 76. 7 this area produced the South Carolinian who became the 7th. President of the United States, Andrew Jackson. This famous Indian trail was followed by pack horse traders from. Charleston before 1. Two routes were followed. One led by way of the Cooper, Santee. Congaree river systems past present day Columbia. The other route turned toward. Augusta on the Savannah River, and headed north to meet the first route near. Ninety Six. The alternate routes converged on the Indian town of Keowee (Oconee county). The path goes by Forts Dorchester (Dorchester county), Pallachucolas. Jasper and Hampton counties), Moore (Aiken county), Ninety Six (Greenwood county). Rutledge (Oconee county), Prince George (Pickens county), and the Congarees (Lexington. On the eastern branch of the path, “a natural route to follow,” French. German, and Scotch- Irish settlers all have left historic evidence along the way. Staging at Fort Prince George, South Carolinians in 1. Tennessee where they built Fort Loudoun. Maryville on the Tellico River. Two British expeditions against the Cherokee followed this route in. Revolutionary heroes - Sumter, Marion, and Pickens - learned guerrilla. Cherokee Path. William Bartram, the naturalist, described it in his. The Jefferson Davis Trail retraces the flight of the President of. Confederacy through South Carolina after the fall of Richmond in 1. On the night of. April 2, 1. Confederate Government evacuated Richmond, Virginia, when defense of. Confederacy capital became impossible. In the following weeks, the surrender of. Confederate armies in Virginia and North Carolina forced President Jefferson Davis with. From April 2. 6 to May 3, 1. Davis and his party traveled. Piedmont region of South Carolina, where they were hospitably. The country through which they passed had escaped much of. Davis’ staff long remembered the well kept. President. wherever he went, offering flowers and strawberries, prayers and kind wishes. Davis still refused to believe the Confederate cause was hopeless. At a Council of War, held at. Abbeville, South Carolina, on May 2, 1. President Davis’s escape across the Mississippi River. The party began to disperse. 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