Fort Johnson/Powder Magazine


Fort Johnson/Powder Magazine
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Fort Johnson/Powder Magazine, September 2011
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Location	East end of Ft. Johnson Road, in South Carolina Department of Natural Resources compound, James Island, South Carolina
Coordinates	32°45′8″N 79°53′55″W / 32.75222°N 79.89861°W / 32.75222; -79.89861Coordinates: 32°45′8″N 79°53′55″W / 32.75222°N 79.89861°W / 32.75222; -79.89861
Area	90 acres (36 ha)
Built	1765 (1765)
NRHP Reference #	72001197^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 14, 1972

Fort Johnson/Powder Magazine is a historic gunpowder magazine located at James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built in 1765, and is a brick structure that measures 27 feet long and 20 feet wide. Fort Johnson was constructed by the British, 1704-1708, and was named for Sir Nathaniel Johnson, proprietary Governor of the Province of Carolina.

This was the site of the first raising of the South Carolina state flag in 1775. The gunpowder magazine was buried during the American Civil War by Confederate soldiers and uncovered in 1961.^[2]^[3]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Tray Stephenson and W.H Byrnes (March 1972). "Fort Johnson/Powder Magazine" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Fort Johnson/Powder Magazine, Charleston County (James Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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