This park includes a children's playground, a seawall promenade with swinging benches, amphitheater, picnic tables, covered pavilion, benches and restroom facilities. This Federal-style house with Adam influence was built in the 1790's by a leading merchant. It's most famous guest was the Marquis de Lafayette who was entertained here in 1825. Union forces used it as headquarters during the Civil War. During the War Between the States, the church was turned into a hospital and the gravestones from the churchyard were brought inside to serve as operating tables.
Visitors welcome daily.
National Cemetary, U.S. 21, Beaufort Abraham Lincoln established this cemetary in 1863 for the victims of battles in the South. It contains the graves of 9,000 Union soldiers and 122 Confederates. Located on the Parris Island Marine Corps Training Depot, this museum features displays on the history of Parris Island from 1564 to the present and a collection of vintage Marine Corps uniforms and weapons. Ghostly ruins of a church built in 1753, burned by the British in 1779, rebuilt, and burned again by Sherman in 1865. The ruins of Sheldon Church stand as a reminder of the destruction in South Carolina during the American Revolution and the Civil War.