Greenwood County · Marker 24-03
Old Ninety Six (2 miles south)
Ninety Six Visitor's Center, 97 E. Main St.
Front inscription
Even before 1730 the fork in the Cherokee Path, 96 miles south of Keowee, was called Ninety Six. Here a trading post was operated, a fort was built, and a courthouse town was established. Here the first land battle of the Revolutionary War in the South was fought, Nov. 19-20, 1775; and here Gen. Nathanael Greene besieged the British in Star Fort, May 22-June 20, 1781.