Pickens County Gristmills

Historical marker location:

138 Hagood Mill Rd, Pickens, South Carolina

( Marker can be reached from Hagood Mill Road west of Brevard Highway (U.S. 178), on the right when traveling west.)

South Carolina was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. In April 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, a federal fort located in Charleston Harbor. The bombardment lasted for 34 hours and resulted in the surrender of the fort to the Confederates.