of the Fourth Brigade
Listen to historian Nic Butler from the Charleston County Public Library describe the history of Marion Square.
Excerpted from Nic Butler's A Brief History of Marion Square, Part 1, courtesy of Nic Butler.
What is Tabby?
Listen to a description of tabby:
In addition to Charleston’s Horn Work, Fort Frederick, built by the British in 1730 to protect Beaufort’s Port Royal Sound, was constructed of tabby. It is the oldest example of tabby in the country. The fort is preserved as the Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve at 601 Old Fort Rd, Port Royal, South Carolina. Other local sites that feature tabby construction include:
- Sea Wall – Bay Street between Carteret and New Streets, Charleston
- Tabby Manse – Bay Street, Beaufort
- Beaufort Arsenal – 713 Craven Street, Beaufort
- St. Helena’s Episcopal Church—505 Church Street, Beaufort
- John Mark Verdier House – 801 Bay Street, Beaufort
- Alley Tabby – 715 Bay Street, Beaufort
- Old Sheldon Church Ruins – Old Sheldon Road, Yemassee
- St. Helena Chapel of Ease – 17 Lands End Road, St. Helena Island
- Bleak Hall Plantation Tabby Ruins – 1066 Botany Bay Rd, Botany Bay WMA, Edisto Island
- Haig Point – Daufuskie Island
- Stoney-Baynard Plantation Ruins – 87 Plantation Drive, Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head Island
- Fish Haul Plantation Ruins – 70 Baygall Road, Hilton Head Island
- Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site — 300 State Park Rd, Summerville
The Horn Work on
Marion Square
Listen to historian Nic Butler from the Charleston County Public Library describe the history of the Horn Work.
Excerpted from Nic Butler's A Brief History of Marion Square, Part 1, courtesy of Nic Butler.
Image credit: Charleston, S.C.
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