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The Stono River or Creek is a tidal channel in southeast South Carolina, located southwest of Charleston.The channel runs southwest to northeast between the mainland and Wadmalaw Island and Johns Island, from north Edisto River between Johns (West) and James (East) Islands.
The leader of the rebellion, Jemmy, was a literate enslaved man. In some reports, however, he is referred to as "Cato", and likely was held by the Cato (or Cater) family, who lived near the Ashley River and north of the Stono River. He led 20 other enslaved Kongolese, who may have been former soldiers, in an armed march south from the Stono River.
On board the U.S. Steam Gunboat Marblehead off Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863, in an engagement with the enemy on John's Island. Serving the rifle gun, Blake, an escaped slave, carried out his duties bravely throughout the engagement which resulted in the enemy's abandonment of positions, leaving a caisson and one gun behind.
It is the near the Stono River Slave Rebellion Site, a U.S. National Historic Landmark and location of the start of the Stono Rebellion, the first large-scale slave revolt in the United States. There was a Rantowles Depot. [1] There is a Rantowles Bridge. [2] Rantowles Creek feeds into the Stono River. Coburg Dairy was established in the area. [3]
Richard Stout (1836 – August 6, 1896) was a Union Navy sailor during the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor for his actions in an engagement with Confederate naval and land forces on the Stono River in South Carolina.
The Stono River is a critical part of the 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of Intracoastal Waterway used by barges, fishing boats, and recreational mariners.The former swing bridge, built in 1929, [1] was an obstruction to vessel traffic, thus removal was mandated by the U.S. Coast Guard in an Order to Alter issued in 1994, leaving only a few swing bridges in the Coast Guard’s Seventh District, from ...
The group proceeded to the Stono Bridge and raided Hutchinson's Store. They took food, ammunition, and supplies, and killed the two shopkeepers, leaving their heads on the store's front steps. [2] The slaves crossed the Stono River and gathered more followers as they began to walk overland to Spanish Florida.
Dawhoo River McKinley Washington, Jr. Bridge (fixed span) Wadmalaw River; Church Flats; Stono River. John F. Limehouse Memorial Bridge (fixed span) Elliott Cut; Wappoo Creek Wappoo Creek Bridge The Wappoo Creek bascule bridge near Charleston, SC. Cooper River (Charleston County, South Carolina) Charleston Harbor; Jeanette Creek; Sullivans Narrows