South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who dismantled most of the former slave's work after the Civil War.
Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand outside of the visitor’s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and the George Washington statue.
Design, location chosen for Robert Smalls monument on South Carolina State House grounds
A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like.
Design unveiled for Robert Smalls monument on SC Statehouse grounds
The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, they just need a way to pay for it.
South Carolina selects first monument at statehouse to honor an African American hero
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S.C. monument to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls
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Robert Smalls statue to stand near visitors’ entrance to SC Statehouse
Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece suit ...
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Hold your horses: Beaufort Police responds to horses loose on Robert Smalls Parkway
The Beaufort Police Department (BPD) responded to a ‘mane event’ in the wee hours of Monday morning. BPD shared on Facebook ...
Editorial: A welcome settlement in Beaufort that balances history, livability
Historic Beaufort Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have a deal to end a fight over the future of ...
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'Pint-sized stallion of sass' takes trot around Beaufort after galloping away from home
Two horses, one of them a pint-sized stallion of sass, decided to gallop away from their home in South Carolina and take an ...
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Panel picks artist, location for Robert Smalls statue on SC Capitol complex
A bipartisan panel of South Carolina lawmakers chose a visible area close to the Statehouse visitor's entrance for the ...
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Man’s death at Beaufort apartments considered suspicious. ‘This is an active investigation’
At 11:36 a.m., police sent out a notice alerting the public to avoid a large police presence at Garden Oaks Apartments, 2000 Salem Road, not far from the intersection of Robert Smalls Parkway and ...
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A Complicated Past
It was the rare moment Robert Smalls, a fiercely intelligent 22-year-old slave, had hoped for. In the dark hours before dawn, with the help of the African-American crew, he fired up the ships’ ...