The Tuskegee Airmen

Historical marker location:

Walterboro, South Carolina

( Marker is on Aviation Way near Lt. Col. Hiram Mann Driveway, on the right when traveling north.)

South Carolina was one of the original thirteen colonies that declared independence from Great Britain in 1776. However, it was also the first state to secede from the United States in 1860, which ultimately led to the Civil War.