Kings Mountain National Military Park, near Blacksburg, and Cowpens National Battlefield, near Gaffney, mark the sites of major Revolutionary War battles. Other battlefields are marked at Camden and at Eutaw Springs, near Eutawville. Beaches along South Carolina's Atlantic Coast offer swimming and sunbathing.
Myrtle Beach is probably the state's most famous seaside resort.
Other beaches, from north to south, include Cherry Grove, Ocean Drive, Crescent, Atlantic, Windy Hill, Isle of Palms, Folly, Kiawah Island, Seabrook Island, Edisto Island, Hunting Island, and Hilton Head Island. Charles Towne Landing, near Charleston, marks the area where South Carolina's first permanent English settlement was established. It includes a replica of a colonial trading ship. Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, was the site of a brave defense by colonists against a British invasion during the Revolutionary War. Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, is the place where the Civil War began in 1861.