Let’s Discover McCormick County’s Role in Our Nation’s Fight for Freedom!

Start a McCormick County Revolutionary War historical adventure here! Willington is at the center of it all, convenient to 17 Revolutionary War & other historical points of interest. While in Willington,…

In 1983, the nearby 18th century Guillebeau homestead was relocated to Hickory Knob State Park and restored to its original design. Guests may now stay in this historic cabin. The…

Cemetery includes the grave of Revolutionary War Sgt. Andre Guillebeau. Andre served in Bordeaux Company initially under Maj. Matthew Beraud who was killed during the 1779 siege of Savannah, GA…

The 1765 settlement included Fort Bonne. Among the inhabitants was Lt. Jean Louis du Mesnil de St. Pierre, 2nd in command at Fort Charlotte during its surrender. He later joined…

Two-story cabin built by Patriot Revolutionary War soldier Sgt. Andre “Andrew” Guillebeau circa 1770, the only remaining structure of the French Huguenot settlement of New Bordeaux established in 1765.

Marker leading to the memorial site, describing the fort’s surrender. Some of the ordnance was taken to Ninety-Six, whereupon a November 1775 attack there resulted in the first South Carolinian…

Overlooks the first overt military land action of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina and perhaps the South. The stone fortress was the last built during the colonial era. Captured…

Long Cane settlers returned in the fall of 1760 following the Long Cane massacre. Protected by Chickasaw, they built this palisade surrounded blockhouse, which also served as a Revolutionary War…

100 mounted Patriot militia, patrolling between their base camp and White Hall intercepted and engaged a band of Loyalist foragers only to belatedly discover they’d stumbled into a superior force.

Organized in 1771, the Patriot congregation met in nearby Fort Long Cane before relocating here at or before 1790, wherein the cemetery dates. At least two Revolutionary War soldiers are…

The fort was a twin-palisaded enclosure raised by Scots-Irish settlers, staunch Patriots, on an eastern bluff overlooking Long Cane Creek shortly upon arrival, who established the Long Cane settlement in…

The Long Cane settlers moved west, which the Cherokee considered a territorial violation. Warned of an attack, without a new fort, the settlers departed. One group was ambushed here, February…

The massacre site, 3 miles west, is where 25 settlers or more were killed, 23 buried on site in a mass grave, several were kidnapped and 21-22 Cherokee died. The…

Dr. de la Howe established residence at Lethe Farm in 1774 and tended wounded Patriot soldiers there in August 1776. He was compelled to join a Loyalist Regiment in 1782…

Start a McCormick County Revolutionary War historical adventure here too! The Dorn Mill Complex began in 1899. It’s centered in McCormick & adjoining counties near 17 Revolutionary War & other…