Florence Stockade
The Florence Stockade, also known as The Stockade or the Confederate States Military Prison at Florence, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp located on the outskirts of Florence, South Carolina, during the American Civil War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Florence Regional Airport and Florence station.
Florence Regional Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Florence Regional Airport is three miles east of Florence, in Florence County, South Carolina, United States. The only scheduled flights are American Eagle to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport.
Florence station
Railway station
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Florence station is a train station in Florence, South Carolina, United States served by Amtrak. It is currently served by the Palmetto and Silver Meteor routes, and is a service stop for the Auto Train.
Beth Israel Congregation
Synagogue
Beth Israel Congregation is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 316 Park Avenue in Florence, South Carolina, in the United States. Formally incorporated with the state of South Carolina in September 1912, Beth Israel grew out of the Florence Hebrew Benevolent Association which was founded in 1887.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Florence and Mars Bluff.
Florence
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Florence is a city in the Pee Dee Country Region of South Carolina. It was the site of the Florence Stockade, a Confederate POW camp, notably bad but still maybe not as bad as Andersonville, then a railroad hub, and nowadays a regional center for medical care and manufacturing, including as it sits at the terminus for I-20.
Mars Bluff
Hamlet
Mars Bluff is an unincorporated community in Florence County, South Carolina, United States that bears the distinction of having been inadvertently bombed with a nuclear weapon by the United States Air Force. Mars Bluff is situated 6 miles east of Florence Stockade.
Florence Stockade
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 98 feet
- Also known as: “The Stockade”
- Categories: military installation and landform
- Location: Florence, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.17616° or 34° 10′ 34″ northLongitude
-79.75286° or 79° 45′ 10″ westElevation
98 feet (30 metres)Open location code
876256GW+FVOpenStreetMap ID
node 357090128OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Notable Places Nearby
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