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The 1,022-acre Ninety Six National Historic Site is located two miles (3.2 kilometers) south of the present-day town of Ninety Six on South Carolina Highway 248. The National Park Service maintains a visitor center that includes a small museum containing artifacts found at the site, as well as other period artifacts, and oil paintings of the ...
Ninety Six: South Carolina: 1,021.94 acres (4.1356 km 2) Old Ninety Six and Star Fort, so named for being 96 miles from the Cherokee town of Keowee (though it is actually 78 miles away), as well as the town of Ninety Six, South Carolina, were strategic forts for both the Cherokee people and soldiers during the American Revolutionary War.
It was the home of Henry Jefferson Kinard and his son Drayton Tucker Kinard II, prominent businessmen and public servants who represented Ninety Six and Greenwood County in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the late 19th and early-20th centuries. [2] [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]
The settlement became the capital city of the Ninety-Six District when the latter was established in July 1769. Since the late 20th century, the National Park Service has operated the Ninety Six National Historic Site at the site of the original settlement and British fort. Ninety Six figured prominently in the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758
The siege of Ninety Six was a siege in western South Carolina late in the American Revolutionary War. From May 22 to June 18, 1781, Continental Army Major General Nathanael Greene led 1,000 troops in a siege against the 550 Loyalists in the fortified village of Ninety Six, South Carolina. The 28-day siege centered on an earthen fortification ...
There are five of these in South Carolina. The National Park Service lists these five together with the NHLs in the state, [11] The Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (also known as Snee Farm) and Ninety Six National Historic Site are also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining three are:
The most recent site listed is the Historic Moravian Bethlehem District, as a part of the transnational site Moravian Church Settlements, shared with Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom. [3] The 26 sites are located in 22 states and two territories.
SC 34, SC 246 and SC 248 in Ninety Six. SC 246 is a two-lane rural highway that traverses from Friendship to Hodges; connecting the town of Ninety Six and the communities of Coronaca and Cokesbury. The highway also provides access to Star Fort Pond, at Ninety Six National Historic Site, via Kinard Road (S-24-27). [2]