Historical Marker

Black Mingo – Willtown / Black Mingo Baptist Church

Historical marker location:
Rhems, South Carolina
( Marker is on County Line Road (State Highway 51) 1.5 miles north of Browns Ferry Road, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1981

The H.L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine that was the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in combat, was built in South Carolina. The Hunley sank the Union ship USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor in 1864, but the submarine itself was lost at sea shortly after the attack.