Barnwell County Confederate Monument

Historical marker location:

Barnwell, South Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Dunbarton Boulevard (State Highway 64) and Main Street (State Highway 70), in the median on Dunbarton Boulevard.)

Marker installed: 1900

1900.

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, but it was also the last state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War. Reconstruction in the state was marked by violence and political turmoil.