Star Fort

Ninety Six National Historic Site, SC

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9 of 13 Jekyll Island Trip Series.

Ninety Six is a town. We had no idea what we would find here but it was a place to get a passport stamp and it was along the route we were taking from Santee to Cherokee.

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Got the stamp and read some interesting history but because we still had a long way to go (and there were bugs and bees) we didn’t do the hike back to the fort. Glad we stopped. Interesting to learn more about “the South” on this trip.
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Artists rendering of the fort from the internet. It was a British fort, built by slaves, and defended by British loyalists against patriots in the first land battle south of New England.

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The hike we could have taken, but didn’t…
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That’s it for Ninety Six. Wish our historian friend Steve Elder had been with us! He would have enjoyed this stop. I feel like I should have at least heard of this town somewhere in my history schooling. Maybe I did but forgot. History was not very interesting back then…

Trivia: The nearby town of Greenwood, SC is the home of Park Seed Company. The largest mail-order seed company in the world.