The Lawson’s Pond Plantation house was built of black cypress in 1823. The piazza flanked the front and one side of the house. This photograph was taken in 1939. In 1700, John Lawson, surveyor-general for North Carolina, traveled from Charleston up the Santee and Congaree Rivers, across to the Waxhaws (York County now), and eventually
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The Ophir house was large and beautiful. Like all the houses of that period it was constructed of hand-sawn lumber. It had four stories, a large basement, and an attic. It now lies beneath Lake Moultrie. A family legend tells of a man traveling up the Santee River Road (now Hwy 45) by stage coach
This John Blake White painting, General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Dinner (1836), depicts the story of a British officer’s visit to Marion’s camp to arrange an exchange of prisoners. Francis Marion was probably the first guerrilla fighter. He refused to follow the accepted rules of warfare during the American Revolution and became the