Archaeologists working at digs in the historic fort have discovered a large stone chip with man-made notches made by a Native-American hunter or fisherman to tie off his weapon dating to 7,500 to 10,000 years ago.
Fort Johnson is known as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired, but there have been forts at the point dating back to an earthen one in 1707.
Not much from a military standpoint remains other than an 1800s powder magazine and cisterns.
In addition, many non-military items have been found. Over the years, it served as a quarantine hospital, summer health resort, and freedman's "squatter" farms. In the 1800s, families summered there to escape malaria in Charleston.
May 9th Myrtle Beach Online.
Don't recall of Ever Hearing of this Fort. --Coot
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