Voorhees College

Historical marker location:

Denmark, South Carolina

( Marker is on East Voorhees Road (State Highway S-5-12) near Soloman Blatt Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1998

The Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, known as the "Swamp Fox," was from South Carolina. Marion was a skilled guerrilla fighter who used the state's swamps and forests as cover to launch surprise attacks against the British.