Historical Marker
Race to the Dan River
Historical marker location:
4001 Chesnee Highway, Gaffney, South Carolina
( Marker is on Battleground Tour Road (Route 11), on the right when traveling east.)
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.