Waverly Building

Historical marker location:

10880 Ocean Hwy #22, Pawleys Island, South Carolina

( Marker can be reached from Ocean Highway (U.S. 17) north of Red Rose Boulevard, on the right when traveling north.)

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.