by Chris Allen

Created on: March 23, 2010   Last Updated: April 18, 2011

Throughout the Southeast United States there are several major historic sites that you could consider going and taking your family with you to see for a day, or perhaps take a several day road trip to see several different locations.  Many of these sites are within a few hours drive of one another and its quite possible that you could make a huge circle through the region, though that might only work if you live in the Southeast, so it would be important to pick an area where you could get to several of the others within a reasonable amount of time.

Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina:

Fort Sumter is perhaps one of the most infamous locations in the United States as it is where the very first shots of the American Civil War were fired.  To get to the fort you must take a little ferry ride across the harbor in Charleston, seeing how the fort is right smack dab in the middle of harbor.  To get to the ferry’s you either go to the station from the Aquarium grounds or travel over to where the World War II aircraft carrier “Yorktown”, a destroyer, and a submarine sit beached along with a Coast Guard Cutter.  Either location will get you to where you need to be going so there’s no worry about being taken to the wrong station.

Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina:

This particular fort was around during the American Revolution.  The fort was made out of local palmetto trees, or rubber trees.  When the British navy arrived and laid siege and fired upon the fort, the wooden walls of the fort bounced the canon shells right off of the walls.  This fort is located very close to where the “Yorktown” and the Maritime museum, just up the road in fact.

Cowpens battlefield near Camden, South Carolina:

This is a Revolutionary War battlefield site, located near Camden.  Occasionally this location will hold reenactments of the battle, which if you ever get to witness one of these they are quite spectacular.

Star Fort in Ninety-Six, South Carolina:

This is yet another Revolutionary War fort.  However this fort was occupied by British forces and loyalists from the nearby town of Ninety-Six, this was the supposed distance from both Columbia and the American Indian tribe that the town traded with, and they were in between both locations.  The Swamp Fox was the leader of the American forces in this campaign and successfully laid siege to the fort for about a month but was driven off when

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