{"id":402,"date":"2025-03-05T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/?page_id=402"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:22:30","slug":"raising-fort-charlottes-colors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/historical-information\/raising-fort-charlottes-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Fort Charlotte&#8217;s Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\">Fort Charlotte<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 28px;\">McCormick County, SC<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Site of the Revolutionary War\u2019s First Overt Military Land<br \/>\nAction in South Carolina and Perhaps the South<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Distinctive Chapters of the Fort\u2019s Multi-Era Story<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Colonial Era<\/strong> &#8211; Last fort built &#8211; <strong>1766<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Revolutionary War &#8211; <\/strong>Site of the first overt military land action in South Carolina and perhaps the South \u2013 Surrendered to SC Patriot troops <strong>7-12-1775<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Post-Revolutionary War \u2013 Early 1800s<\/strong> &#8211; Became an infamous site to conduct duels<\/li>\n<li><strong>Civil War<\/strong> &#8211; The Confederate Treasury &amp; Seal were transported directly past 3 times near the end of the war<strong>. <\/strong>Jefferson Davis led the way into Georgia the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0 The Seal has never been found and is storied to have been buried close to or thrown into the Savannah River near the fort<\/li>\n<li><strong>July 12, 1941<\/strong> \u2013 South Carolina Historical Marker unveiled at the SE corner of Rte. 81 &amp; Fort Charlotte Rd. in Mt. Carmel<\/li>\n<li><strong>March into April, 1949<\/strong> &#8211; NPS investigated the site on behalf of the USACOE. Deemed top historical site threatened by the forthcoming damming of the Savannah River.\u00a0 Recommended, \u201c\u2026<em> that every possible cooperation by given this <\/em>(excavation, recovery and rebuild) <em>project<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>1951\/1952<\/strong> \u2013 Federal Government committed funds to excavate the ruins<\/li>\n<li><strong>January 1952<\/strong> &#8211; Site excavated &amp; documented by a Smithsonian Institution contracted archaeologist. Artifacts collected, including First American. \u00a0Promised by NPS to South Carolina.\u00a0 Whereabouts unaccounted for still today<\/li>\n<li><strong>1952<\/strong> \u2013 South Carolina Committed funds to recover and rebuild<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 23, 1952 <\/strong>&#8211; On-site stones (walls), including foundation, fully recovered<\/li>\n<li><strong>December 12, 2001<\/strong> \u2013 Interpretive sign revealed at the southern terminus of Fort Charlotte Rd. along the Thurmond Lake shore<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024<\/strong> &#8211; Remains of Fort Charlotte still rest on shore, awaiting reconstruction<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fort Charlotte\u2019s story continues<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Fort Charlotte McCormick County, SC Site of the Revolutionary War\u2019s First Overt Military Land Action in South Carolina and Perhaps the South Distinctive Chapters of the Fort\u2019s Multi-Era Story &nbsp; Colonial Era &#8211; Last fort built &#8211; 1766 Revolutionary War &#8211; Site of the first overt military land action in South Carolina and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":375,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions\/407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccormickscchamber.org\/mc250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}