Berkeley County · Marker 08-08
Mepkin Plantation
S.C. Sec. Rd. 8-44, 4.9 mi. S of its intersection with S.C. Hwy. 402, S of Moncks Corner
Front inscription
Home of Henry Laurens, who was born in Charleston in 1724 and died at Mepkin in 1792. President of the first and second councils of safety, 1775-1776; president First Provincial Congress of S.C. 1775; vice president of SC 1776; president of Continental Congress 1777-78; elected minister plenipotentiary to Holland 1779. Confined fourteen months in the Tower of London and exchanged for Lord Cornwallis; signed preliminaries of peace in Paris, with Adams, Jay, and Franklin, 1782.