World War I Memorial

Historical marker location:

3300 W Radio Dr, Florence, South Carolina

( Memorial can be reached from Woody Jones Boulevard, 0.4 miles east of West Radio Drive, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1928

Florence Veterans Park.

South Carolina was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade. Charleston was one of the busiest ports for the importation of enslaved Africans in North America, with an estimated 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to the United States passing through the city.