THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
IN LAURENS COUNTY

Finding Inspiration in Every Turn

Our County story begins.......

The former Revolutionary War Museum at 205 West Laurens Street has permanently closed. All American Revolutionary War artifacts and history details has been relocated to the Laurens County Museum at 116 South Public Square, Laurens. A permanent exhibit is being designed and built at the Museum with a grand opening of the full exhibit scheduled for the Statewide Sestercentennial Celebration in 2026.

Along with all of the planning and development, this page is also being developed and will expand in many ways. Please be patient.

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LAURENS COUNTY 250 COMMITTEE

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

About Us - We are all about celebrating Laurens County's role in the American Revolution and we are excited

to celebrate the Nationally celebrated Sestercentennial in 2026. We are striving to help people from all over the world connect with the history, places, ideas, and events that made Laurens County important during the American Revolution. Understanding our past can teach us all valuable lessons and inspire us to build a better future. Our assigned mission is to share Laurens County's significant role in the American Revolution with residents and all of those who visit. We want everyone to feel proud of our local history and ensure that the

stories from the American Revolution live on for future generations.

Vision - To connect the world to the history, places, principles, and events of the American Revolution in

Laurens County.

Mission - To celebrate and promote Laurens County's role in the American Revolution by educating, engaging, and inspiring Laurens County citizens and visitors.

Goals:
- To discover how Laurens County was involved in the Revolutionary War through the people, places,

principals, and events.

- To preserve the history of the American Revolution in Laurens County and allow access to the many resources and sites.

- To educate the community on the area's significance by promoting research and tourism.

LAURENS COUNTY 250 COMMITTEE

Ernest B. Segars, Chairman T. Eston (Bud) Marchant, Vice Chairman
Sarah Jane Armstrong J. Durant Ashmore Diane T. Culbertson Dr. Booker Ingram Amanda M. Benfield Carolyn B. Shortt
Debbie W. Vaughn

COMMITTEE ASSIGNEES
Christian Taylor Betty C. Walsh

COUNTY COUNCIL ASSIGNEES
David Tribble Luke Rankin

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Through the dedication of the Laurens County 250 Committee, the Revolutionary War Sites in Laurens County are coming to life. The State of South Carolina and accompanying County's are making plans to hold an American Revolutionary War Sestercentennial Celebration in 2026. The Laurens County 250 Committee is making sure that Laurens County will participate in this historical event first class.

The program for this celebration began with the Charter by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2018. By late September of 2021 the Laurens County Council agreed to support the program and a Laurens County 250 Sestercentennial Committee was appointed.

To help with this tremendous task, the Laurens County 250 Committee has solicited funding with several local agencies, as well as applying for State and Federal Grants, to accomplish these detailed tasks at hand.

For the past several years, Durant Ashmore, a local Historian / Battleground Preservationist, has held many lectures on the identified sites, the local hero's and heroine's. Ground tours have been conducted on the following Saturdays following the site lectures. More tours and ribbon cuttings will be held in the future months to come.

Another venue, and a very important part of the Sestercentennial Celebration in 2026, is an attempt to identify Laurens County families that had family members that fought in this war. If anyone has any family information identifying the family, the solider and where they are buried or artifacts, by all means contact us at the Museum.

Culbertson’s Backcountry Settlement

Dicey Langston Homeplace

Duncan Creek Meeting House

Fort Lindley

Fort Ridgeway

Fort Williams

Hayes Station

Hollingsworth Mill

Hammond’s Old Store

Hurricane Meeting House

Kellett’s Blockhouse

Liberty Springs Presbyterian Church

The Battle of Mudlick Creek

Musgrove Mill

Rosemont Plantation

Rutledge Ford

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political revolution in the Thirteen Colonies when the Colonists initiated and successfully won the war for independence against the Great Britain Kingdom.

New England Colonies - New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut;
Middle Colonies – New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware;
Southern Colonies – Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

THE THIRTEEN COLONIES...

IDENTIFIED LAURENS COUNTY SITES

LECTURE GALLARY OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

The lecture series have been an ongoing, well attended lectures, collectively provided by the Laurens County Revolutionary War 250 Committee and the Laurens County Museum. Several of the speakers have been from the Speakers Bureau of the South Carolina State 250 Committee and Laurens County's own, Durant Ashmore. Mr. Ashmore is a known Battlefield Preservationist and Historian. Below you will find a series of the lectures and in some areas, the lecture videos as recorded by Museum Volunteers.