Richland County · Marker 40-32
Early Summer Resorts
Two Notch Rd. (U.S. Hwy. 1), Dentsville community near Sesquicenntenial State Park, Columbia
Front inscription
Lightwood Knot Springs, situated about two miles north, a popular summer resort during the first half of the nineteenth century, was later Confederate training camp for recruits. A few miles east was Rice Creek Springs, another early summer resort and the site of Richland Polytechnic Institute, 1830-1845.