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One Great Day Trip: Ninety Six, South Carolina Battlefield cannon, siege trenches and mounds at Ninety Six National Historic Site. (©Zack Frank/Shutterstock) By Jennifer McKee About an hour due north of Augusta lies Ninety Six, South Carolina, home to a historic site that proved a strategic location in the Revolutionary War. Named by Charleston traders for the estimated number of miles from the site to the Cherokee village of Keowee, Ninety Six was the first land battle south of New England in 1775. Later in the war, the frontier town was fortified by the British, and in 1781, General Nathanael Greene, with 1,000 patriot troops, staged the war’s longest field siege. Its earthen Star Fort remains as one of the best-preserved examples of an original 18th century fortification.

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