Anderson Field / Walterboro Army Air Field

Historical marker location:

537 Aviation Way, Walterboro, South Carolina

( Marker is on Aviation Way, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1997

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.