Georgetown Notebook | Marking and making history - Today's News - TheSunNews.com
Georgetown Notebook Marking and making history - Today's News - TheSunNews.com
Georgetown has its fair share of history and 57 state Historical Markers to prove it.
This weekend, No. 58 will be unveiled.
As of Saturday, anyone traveling along Front Street in downtown Georgetown will be able to read the story of the Union Navy vessel USS Harvest Moon thanks to the Arthur Manigault Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Battery White Camp of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans.
In March 1865 the USS Harvest Moon sank when it struck a torpedo floated into the Winyah Bay by Confederate Capt. Thomas Daggett. Daggett built his torpedo in the second floor of a store at 633 Front St. in Georgetown.
The smokestack of the 193-foot Harvest Moon can still be seen at low tide in the bay and there will be a tour boat trip out to the site of the vessel after the unveiling ceremony on Saturday.
The ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. at 637 Front St. in front of the Rice Museum annex building, also known as the old Kaminski Hardware Co.
SOUTHERN SCENES-- A Confederate canon still faces Winyah Bay at Battery White, a large earthwork battery built around 1862 during the civil war on the current site of the Belle Isle Yacht Club, has been preserved and added to the register of National Historic Places. The battery was built to protect the Georgetown harbor which was recognized as important to defense of the state. The battery was abandoned late in 1864 by the Confederates and in 1865 Rear-Admiral Dahlgren of the flagship Harvest Moon reported the occupation of the battery and of Georgetown. As the ship made its way out of the harbor, it struck a torpedo and sank. A historical marker will be placed in front of the Rice Museum in Georgetown recognizing the event. Part of a continuing series of photographs featuring Georgetown county by Steve Jessmore, Georgetown county resident and photographer for The Sun News. Ideas? Contact sjessmore@thesunnews.com.
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Georgetown has its fair share of history and 57 state Historical Markers to prove it.
This weekend, No. 58 will be unveiled.
As of Saturday, anyone traveling along Front Street in downtown Georgetown will be able to read the story of the Union Navy vessel USS Harvest Moon thanks to the Arthur Manigault Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Battery White Camp of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans.
In March 1865 the USS Harvest Moon sank when it struck a torpedo floated into the Winyah Bay by Confederate Capt. Thomas Daggett. Daggett built his torpedo in the second floor of a store at 633 Front St. in Georgetown.
The smokestack of the 193-foot Harvest Moon can still be seen at low tide in the bay and there will be a tour boat trip out to the site of the vessel after the unveiling ceremony on Saturday.
The ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. at 637 Front St. in front of the Rice Museum annex building, also known as the old Kaminski Hardware Co.
SOUTHERN SCENES-- A Confederate canon still faces Winyah Bay at Battery White, a large earthwork battery built around 1862 during the civil war on the current site of the Belle Isle Yacht Club, has been preserved and added to the register of National Historic Places. The battery was built to protect the Georgetown harbor which was recognized as important to defense of the state. The battery was abandoned late in 1864 by the Confederates and in 1865 Rear-Admiral Dahlgren of the flagship Harvest Moon reported the occupation of the battery and of Georgetown. As the ship made its way out of the harbor, it struck a torpedo and sank. A historical marker will be placed in front of the Rice Museum in Georgetown recognizing the event. Part of a continuing series of photographs featuring Georgetown county by Steve Jessmore, Georgetown county resident and photographer for The Sun News. Ideas? Contact sjessmore@thesunnews.com.
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