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Ninety Six National Historic Site
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Ninety Six National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments

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Ninety Six National Historic Site
Address: 1103 Hwy 248
Ninety Six, SC 29666
Phone: 864-543-4068;
Fax: 864-543-2058;
Web: www.nps.gov/nisi/
Size: 1,022 acres.
Established: Authorized on August 19, 1976.
Location: 2 miles south of the town of Ninety Six, South Carolina, on SC 248. Accessible via I-26 and SC 34, I-20 and US 25, or I-85 and SC 178.
Facilities: Picnic area, rest rooms (é), visitor center (é), museum/exhibit, self-guided tour/trail.
Activities: Hiking, bicycling, fishing, wildlife viewing, interpretive programs.
Special Features: This important colonial backcountry trading village and government seat (after 1769) was held briefly by the British during the Revolutionary War and is the scene of Nathanael Greene's siege in 1781. The site contains earthwork embankments of a 1781 fortification, the remains of two historic villages, a colonial plantation complex, and numerous prehistoric sites.

See other parks in South Carolina.


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