June 14, 2025 Saturday All Day, Starting at 9am Pickens, SC Battlefield preservationist and noted local historian Durant Ashmore will be renting a van and taking folks to Mile Creek County Park - the site of Ft. Prince George and Keowee, then Eastatoe, Tomassee, Esseneca, Ft. Rutledge, Treaty Oak, Old Stone Church. Oconee Station if
The Colonel Robert Anderson Chapter SCSSAR Welcomes your Attendance at: A Grave Marking Ceremony for Patriot John King Life Guard to General George Washington Saturday, June14th, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Spartanburg Gun Club 180 Fretwell Rd. Pacolet, SC 29372 Please Note: King Cemetery is in a remote location, accessible only via a half-mile hike through
Join us for this Living History Saturday as we highlight the history of Juneteenth, its connection to the Brattonsville community, and traditional ways of celebrating emancipation. On-Going Activities: Meet the Descendants of Brattonsville Cooking with traditional recipes such as Sorrel Tea & BBQ 18th Infantry Interpretation Blacksmithing Create a Juneteenth Booklet including recipes, historical information,
The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is fast approaching! Are you ready to share the complex history of our nation’s founding with your students? Would you like to experience the Revolutionary-era through site visits, tours & lectures? CCTI partici- pants gain innovative teaching skills for the classroom while earning 3 graduate certificate renewal hours.
Joe Long, Curator of Education at South Carolina’s Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, comes back to the Rev War Visitor Center on the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill to help understand what really happened. Use the skills taught in this Lunch & Learn to read, study, and evaluate other Revolutionary battles
Archaeology studies at Hanging Rock Battlefield with John Allison
Lancaster County 250 Committee and SC 250 Commission are proud to present the Hanging Rock Archaeology Program. The program will be held on Tuesday, June 17, at 7:00PM at the Lancaster County Historical Courthouse. John E. Allison will provide an engaging talk on how metal detecting has been instrumental in uncovering the locations of patriot
The Union County Historical Society is proud to announce a special presentation by battlefield preservationist Durant Ashmore. The presentation will be held on Thursday, June 26 at 7:00PM in the meeting room at the From Building (103 W Main Street). Mr. Ashmore is a resident of Greenville, SC and a graduate of Furman University. He
Join us on Saturday, June 28, for the ninth annual Kids 4th of July Parade! Pre-parade activities will start at 10 AM at City Hall, followed by the parade at 10:30 AM on Rutledge Street. Decorate your bicycles, scooters, and wagons! Wear your patriotic red, white, and blue! For the safety of our participants, motorized
Please join us for Living History Saturday's Independence Day. Historic Brattonsville will commemorate Independence Day through hands-on activities, living history demonstrations, and timed presentations. Among these will be historic cooking demonstrations, site tours, and readings of the Declaration of Independence and other patriotic documents. View more details on the webpage.
Don't wait until Independence Day to celebrate! Go ahead and feel your state's pride when our patriots 249 years ago defeated a British fleet in Charleston harbor. On June 28, 1776, a heavily outnumbered and outgunned band of determined heroes on Sullivan's Island repulsed a powerful British invasion force to score the American's first major
You are cordially invited to join the Pickens County America 250 Committee on June 28th, 2025, for a rare Revolutionary War era slideshow presentation by noted Pickens County historian, Dennis Chastain. This event will take place at 3:00 pm at the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in Easley, South Carolina. Chastain says that “While the