26
Aug
1976
Ninety Six Designated National Historic Site
Ninety Six, SC· day date
The Story
Congress designated Ninety Six a National Historic Site in 1976, preserving the Star Fort earthworks, the approach trenches, the village archaeological remains, and the surrounding landscape. The site is one of the best-preserved Revolutionary War earthwork fortifications in the country, and the NPS interpretation covers both the military siege and the longer story of the backcountry civil war.
Sources for Ninety Six
General Nathanael Greene's Correspondence: Siege of Ninety Six, May-June 1781
University of North Carolina Press (Papers of Nathanael Greene)Lord Rawdon to Sir Henry Clinton: Dispatch on the Relief of Ninety Six, June 1781
Public Record Office (National Archives, United Kingdom)National Park Service
Pension Applications: Ninety Six Garrison and Siege Participants, 1820s-1840s
National Archives and Records AdministrationSouth Carolina Department of Archives and History
www.scencyclopedia.org
Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States
Bradford and Inskeep (Henry Lee)American Battlefield Trust
The Road to Guilford Courthouse: Ninety Six and the Siege
John Wiley & Sons (John Buchanan)The Siege of Ninety Six: Archaeology and History
South Carolina Historical MagazineUniversity of South Carolina, South Caroliniana Library
National Park Service
Wikipedia