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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Santee Indian Mound Alternative Name: Santee Indian Mound Site, Santee Indian Mound - Fort WatsonCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 109.409 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Summerton, SC
Latitude: 33.539800N Longitude: 80.43796W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson is a historic archaeological site located in North Santee, Clarendon County, South Carolina, near Summerton. Santee Indian Mound was part of a Santee mound village complex; it was probably a burial and/or temple mound, likely constructed in some cultural period between 1200–1500.
The fortification, British American Revolutionary War post Fort Watson, was built from 30 to 50 feet (9.1 to 15.2 m) high atop the mound. In 1780, Francis Marion and Light Horse Harry Lee decided to capture the fort in the Siege of Fort Watson. Fort Watson was the first fortified British military outpost in South Carolina recaptured by patriot forces after the British occupation of 1780. There are no remains of Fort Watson on the site.[2][3]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.[1] Today it is located in the Santee National Wildlife Refuge. Source: Wikipedia.
References:
1. National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson, Clarendon County (Address Restricted). National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
3. Toney J. Lister (June 1969). "Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
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Directions: From Summerton, SC via US-15 S/US 301 S/St. Paul Rd., 8.2 mi.
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