Absolutely brilliant. Would love to see this. "A 6-pounder gun mounted on the corner platform of Fort Fair Lawn could be wheeled from aiming at the Cooper River below to fire at the vital trading road past Colleton Castle above it. On this day more than two centuries ago, it was. The British earthen fort at the river headwaters near today's Moncks Corner was attacked by 300 Patriot soldiers. Fewer than half that many troops manned it, but the Patriots failed to take it. At other times, troops led by Colonels Francis "Swamp " Marion, Wade Hampton and "Light Horse" Harry Lee also made tries and failed. This backcountry redoubt might have been the most impressive Revolutionary War post in the Lowcountry. Even more impressive, it's still largely intact, and you'll soon get your chance to see it. On Thursday, the Lord Berkeley Conservation Trust and the South Carolina Battleground Trust will announce the protection of the fort and 80 surrounding acres, as well as plans to eventually open it to the public, in line with the anniversary of the Nov. 17, 1781, battle. The fort was purchased from private owners, in a wooded area surrounded by the ribbons, stakes and pipes of a development that had been planned. The purchase was made in the nick of time, said Doug Bostick, the battleground trust director. "Now you can walk inside of Fort Fair Lawn and be lost in the 18th century," he said. "It's a fascinating story how this came to be," said Raleigh West, Lord Berkeley trust director. The remarkable structure was built to guard both a major river and a land route out of Charleston. It was erected with such precision that its sides line up with the east, west, north and south compass points. Some 235 years after the battle, 6-foot-high walls still enclose it. One of the last two intact forts of 30 built in South Carolina during the Revolutionary era, it's in better shape than most Civil War earthen forts built nearly a century later, Bostick said." http://www.postandcourier.com/news/intact-revolutionary-war-earthworks-conserved-to-be-opened-to-view/article_db18bc5a-ab57-11e6-b3ae-931ff1268826.html
