Dorchester County · Marker 18-01

Old Dorchester

Off S.C. Hwy. 642 in Old Dorchester State Park, S of Summerville

Front inscription

Laid out in 1697 as a market town for the Congregationalist colony from Dorchester, Mass., the village contained 116 quarter-acre lots and a town square and commons. An Anglican church was built in 1720, a fair was established in 1723, and a Free School in 1734. Dorchester became a trade center and by 1781 had about 40 houses. The town gradually declined after the Revolution. By 1788 it was abandoned.

County
Dorchester

Region
Lowcountry

City or vicinity
Summerville

Year approved
1963

Erected by
S.C. State Commission of Forestry, Division of State Parks

Coordinates
32.950133, -80.171

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