"Robber's Row"

"Robber's Row" is a South Carolina historical marker in Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, dedicated 1961.

Beaufort County · dedicated 1961 · Ft. Walker Dr., near its intersection with North Portal Royal Dr., Port Royal Island, Hilton Head Island

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After the occupation of Hilton Head in 1861, a civilian town grew up to serve the needs of the large Union base and its garrison here. The town boasted a hotel, a theater, 2 newspapers, and numerous stores, restaurants and saloons, centering along a street officially Suttlers Row but usually called Robbers Row, which ran east from this point about ½ mile to the army tent encampment.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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