Greenwood County · Marker 24-04
Preston Brooks Dinner
Ninety Six Visitor's Center, 97 E. Main St.
Front inscription
National attention was focused here on Oct. 3, 1856, when some 10,000 people honored Preston S. Brooks, Congressman from this district, with a public dinner in vindication of his assault on Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Senate floor for a speech insulting to this state. The Preston Brooks home was five miles south on Highway 246.