Historical Marker
Korea
Historical marker location:
Florence, South Carolina
( Memorial can be reached from South Woody Jones Boulevard, 0.3 miles north of David H McLeod Blvd.)
Marker installed: 2018
Florence Veterans Park.
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.