Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Fort Randall Historical Marker

From The Historical Marker database.

Near North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Home of Carolina Beach Music.  Get your history and do a little dancing too at Fat Harold's and HOTO's.

INSCRIPTION:

Locaterd  about 5 miles east of here, this Confederate fort included a blockhouse pierced for muskets and earthworks surrounded by a ditch about 10 foot broad and five feet deep.

The fort was captured Jan 1863 by U.S. Navy  Lt. Wm. B. Casuhing and twenty-five men while looking for blockade-runner pilots.  Cushing held the fort briefly until his supply of ammunition was  exhausted.

Erected 1976 by the Horry County Historic Preservation Commission.  (Marker  Number 26-4)

--Old B-Runner


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