FMTC Sites The Pee Dee Tour - Episode 1

1. Burch’s Mill
South Carolina’s First Civil War Nears its End
Leaving the Francis Marion University Educational Foundation Building on Palmetto
Street you will turn right towards the Francis Marion University main entrance. Proceed
1 block on Palmetto Street and turn right at the intersection of Palmetto Street and
Francis Marion Road. Follow this road for 5 miles. At the intersection of Francis Marion
Road and Old River Road you, turn left onto Old River Road and proceed 7.2 miles until
you get to Mill Branch Road. This is a dirt road across from Mill Branch A.M.E. Church
(red brick church on the right side of the highway). You will turn left and proceed down
this dirt road for 1.2 miles until you come to a stop sign at the Great Pee Dee River. This
is a bluff so proceed carefully. The interpretive sign is at the edge of the bluff overlooking
the river. Your travel time from the Educational Foundation Building is about 22 minutes.

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