Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Thomas Pinckney

View recipients of the National Park Service Freeman Tilden Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to the practice of interpretation and education by NPS employees.

Charles Pinckney, a delegate from South Carolina, was an influential delegate to the Constitutional Convention. What did he think the new country should be? Find out here.

Meet Hannah Murray, a Cub Scout from Pack 743! She is also a youth volunteer with the National Park Service (NPS).

Although the abolition of slavery emerged as a dominant objective of the Union war effort, most Northerners embraced abolition as a practical measure rather than a moral cause. The war resolved legally and constitutionally the single most important moral question that afflicted the nascent republic, an issue that prevented the country from coalescing around a shared vision of freedom, equality, morality, and nationhood.

In 2012, the American Council of Engineering Companies of South Carolina awarded the three-part design team for Charles Pinckney National Historic Site’s fire suppression system with an engineering excellence award in the category of small projects.

Late in American Revolution, the Snee Farm plantation was used by the British to hold Patriot leaders including General William Moultrie. Learn why Colonel Charles Pinckney allowed his plantation to be used for this purpose.

Meet Amanda Falcone, a former intern and current volunteer at Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, and Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina!

A solar eclipse is visually stunning, but what will it sound like? NPS scientists will find out by recording sounds in parks across the USA.