South Carolina’s First Civil War Nears its End

Leaving the Francis Marion University Educational Foundation Building on Palmetto

Street you will turn right towards the Francis Marion University main entrance. Proceed

1 block on Palmetto Street and turn right at the intersection of Palmetto Street and

Francis Marion Road. Follow this road for 5 miles. At the intersection of Francis Marion

Road and Old River Road you, turn left onto Old River Road and proceed 7.2 miles until

you get to Mill Branch Road. This is a dirt road across from Mill Branch A.M.E. Church

(red brick church on the right side of the highway). You will turn left and proceed down

this dirt road for 1.2 miles until you come to a stop sign at the Great Pee Dee River. This

is a bluff so proceed carefully. The interpretive sign is at the edge of the bluff overlooking

the river. Your travel time from the Educational Foundation Building is about 22 minutes.