Barnwell Street - Columbia, South Carolina
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BruceS
N 34° 00.246 W 081° 01.447
17S E 497772 N 3762609
Marker giving history of street in Columbia.
Waymark Code: WMGTJH
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 04/08/2013
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Text of marker:
Barnwell Street
This street is named for General John Barnwell, St. Helena's Parish. He was elected to the Provincial Congress of 1775-76 and to the 1776 General assembly.
A captain in the First Provincial Regiment, he was major, colonel, and brigadier general in the militia, 1779-81. Barwell was captured in Charleston in 1780 and later imprisoned on the schooner Pack-Horse.
From 1778 until his death in 1800, he served several terms in the S.C. Senate.