Congaree Fort

Historical marker location:

Cayce, South Carolina

( Marker is on Charleston Highway (U.S. 176/321) near Between Dixiana Road and Old Dunbar Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1958

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.