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Building tools from the era of the 1780s.Gear carried by British and American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.Revolutionary War-era munitions recovered from the Camden battlefield.A reconstructed portion of the wall that British forces built during their defense of Camden against the American Army in 1780.The Kershaw House, home of a prominent merchant in Camden, S.C. During the battle and subsequent occupation, it served as British headquarters.Another of the dying breed of downtown movie houses, this one in Camden, S.C. U.S. Route 1 in Columbia is also dedicated to the memory of Lt. Gen. Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Army of Virginia.During the 1950s, a consortium of garden clubs began naming roads The South Carolina statehouse was not completed until 1907. The poverty of the Reconstruction era after the Civil War slowed its repair after it was severely damaged by Union artillery fire in 1865.nion forces under Gen. William Techumseh Sherman captured Columbia in 1865. Many Union soldiers held South Carolina responsible above all other southern states for the secession and the resulting Civil War. When they captured the city, Sherman's forces burned the original statehouse, which was made of wood. They shelled this building, which was begun in 1860 but left unfinished when the war broke out in 1861, then raised the American flag over it. The Rev. Charlie Garrette reading excerpts from the south Carolina Consitution and from the bible. Garrette was taping himself reading in front of the South Carolina statehouse. I never got a chance to ask him why he was doing this as he never stopped talking while I was there.Columbia, S.C., the State Capitol is in the background. In the foreground, a monument to Confederate war dead killed in the Civil War. Note the southern pines on either side of the road. They are lined up, almost like rows of corn. This area is known for tree farming. Some stretches of the road remind me (except for the accents of the residents oh, and the heat) remind me or portions of route 1 in Maine.Out of Cheraw, the road is two lanes and narrow. Along a stretch, someone planted four rows of sunflowers along one side of the road. Further along, someone (the same person) planted four rows of corn. Route 1 is also called the Jefferson Davis Highway throughout much of its length through South Carolina, including through Cheraw.Gillespie died in New Jersey in 1993. The monument was erected about 10 years later in Cheraw. Jazz musician John Birks One of the few buildings to survive a munitions explosion during the Civil War in Cheraw, South Carolina. It was moved to the town green in the 1960s.