Allendale County War Memorial

Historical marker location:

Fairfax, South Carolina

( Marker is on Allendale-Fairfax Highway (U.S. 278) near Laurens Avenue North, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1954

South Carolina was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade. Charleston was one of the busiest ports for the importation of enslaved Africans in North America, with an estimated 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to the United States passing through the city.