Camden and Chester, SC: December 29-30, 2016 - War Memorial

While at the lakehouse over winter break, my family decided to make a day trip down to Camden, a fairly small South Carolinian town, but also the site of some Revolutionary War history.

Arriving at the site, we saw an open field dotted by historic (yet likely restored) log cabins, like so:

After paying the nominal admission fee, we first stopped here:

to watch the brief informational vid

The insides of the cabins had been repurposed as tiny museum walk-throughs:

Told all the fantastic history of the battle of Camden, which was something like the most catastrophic loss the Americans took during the war.

Continued on to the big house:

Wasn't open for tours, but I took some shots through the windows:

Fancy business.

Porch view:

and backyard:

Other odds n' ends:

And some car shots of the actual town of Camden:

The next day, coming back to Charlotte from the lake, we stopped in Chester, another quaint small town with small town charm:

Only a brief stop and walkabout there.  Headed out around quarter til one.