SC-26-3 Boundary House

Marker text: BOUNDARY HOUSE

During the colonial era the Boundary House, on the S.C.-N.C. line 1.3 mi. SE, was both a private residence and Òpublic house.Ó In 1775 Isaac Marion (d. 1781), eldest brother of future partisan leader Gen. Francis Marion, lived there. On May 9, 1775, when Isaac Marion received news of the Battle of Lexington, Mass., he forwarded the dispatch to the Committee of Safety in Little River.

Erected by Horry County, 2005 replacing a marker erected by the Horry County Historic Preservation Commission in 1976.