Hampton Plantation

Historical marker location:

McClellanville, South Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 17 and Rutledge Road (South Carolina Highway 10-857), on the right when traveling south on U.S. 17.)

Marker installed: 2001

The state dance of South Carolina is the shag, a style of swing dancing that originated in the beach towns along the Grand Strand in the 1940s.