27 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.MountPleasantPodcast.com our town BY MARY COY You may have heard that our nation is preparing for a big birthday party next year celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But if you remember any of your history from high school, you may also recall that the Declaration in 1776 wasn’t the beginning nor was it the end of the colonists’ attempt to separate from Great Britain. It took years of conflict that started with a tea party in 1773 and ended with a treaty signed in Paris in 1783 for the United States of America to finally achieve its goal. Many Americans consider the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies to have been the setting for the Revolutionary War, but more battles were fought in South Carolina against the British and their loyalists than in any other of the Thirteen Colonies. And some of the most ardent leaders in the push for independence came from right here in the Lowcountry. CHARLES PINCKNEY You are likely familiar with Snee Farm, an established Mount Pleasant neighborhood. But did you know the land was originally the plantation of one of our nation’s Founding Fathers, Charles Pinckney? His former home on Long Point Road is a National Historic Site. And well it should be, since he not only signed the U.S. Constitution, but proposed the majority of what ended up in it. He was one of four men from the Lowcountry Freedom Fighters Lowcountry Patriots Who Paved The Way
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