Bowling Green

Bowling Green is a South Carolina historical marker in Spring Branch vicinity, Marion County, dedicated 1978.

Marion County · dedicated 1978 · U.S. Hwy. 501, just N. of Bowling Green Rd., Spring Branch vicinity, N of Marion, Spring Branch vicinity

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On this site, located about ½ mile northeast, at least 500 Loyalists under the command of Major Micajah Ganey laid down their arms in accordance with a previous agreement made between Francis Marion and Ganey. This treaty signed June 8, 1782 at Burch's Mill on the Pee Dee River, ended the partisan warfare in the area.

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

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