On June 11, 1562, Huguenot Jean Ribault leaves Charlesfort, and the 26 men occupying it on Parris Island in the Port Royal Sound, to return to France.
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On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman, as an advisor to Col. James Montgomery, helped lead the Combahee River Raid, freeing more than 750 slaves.
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One of the Lowcountry’s most-anticipated social events, Historic Beaufort Foundation’s Lafayette Soiree, is set for Saturday, May 16 at the 200-year-old George Moss Stony House in the National Historic Landmark District.
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In the early hours of May 13, 1862, an enslaved man delivered himself, his fellow crew members and their families past a Confederate barricade to freedom. Exactly 164 years later, on the state-designated day commemorating the escape, state lawmakers celebrated Robert Smalls and the legacy they hope more people learn about through a monument to the Civil War hero on Statehouse grounds.
Late on the night of May 12 and early morning hours of May 13 in 1862, Beaufort’s Robert Smalls stole the CSS Planter and delivered the ship to the Union Navy that was blockading Charleston harbor.
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The Statehouse’s planned monument to Civil War hero Robert Smalls has a location. It has a design. What Smalls’ monument, the first on the grounds honoring an individual Black person, needs next is funding.
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On May 2, 1903, James Edwin McTeer, known as the High Sheriff of the Lowcountry, is born in Hardeeville. McTeer would serve 37 years as Beaufort County Sheriff.
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One of the most significant moments in the nation’s march toward freedom happened here, along the banks of the Beaufort River. For decades, it has also been largely out of reach.
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The all-powerful South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE) has not always been a big fan of the Beaufort campus of the University of South Carolina.
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The Beaufort County Historical Society, the Beaufort Public Library’s Beaufort District Collection, and the Beaufort County 250th Committee have combined forces to make it easy and fun for visitors and residents alike to discover Beaufort’s rich Revolutionary War past by playing “Revealing the Revolution: One Marker at a Time!” — a free and self-guided historical marker scavenger hunt.
