Charleston County · Marker 10-41

Liberty Hill

at the Felix Pinckney Community Center, 4790 Hassell St., North Charleston

Front inscription

Liberty Hill, established in 1871, is the oldest community in what is now North Charleston. In 1864 Paul and Harriet Trescot, "free persons of color" living in Charleston, owned 112 acres here. They sold land to Ishmael Grant, Aaron Middleton, and Plenty and William Lecque for a settlement for freedmen. These men donated an acre of the southeast corner to "the African Church," now St. Peter's African Methodist Episcopal Church.

County
Charleston
Region
Lowcountry
City or vicinity
North Charleston
Year approved
2005
Erected by
City of North Charleston and the North Charleston Heritage Corridor
Coordinates
32.880417, -79.99645

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