Ninety Six National Historic Site preserves the site of the old town of Ninety Six, an important seat of power in the backcountry of South Carolina during colonial times. It includes some of the best preserved earthworks of the American Revolution, including the Star Fort and a military mine. The area also holds the trails of the Cherokee Indians who first hunted these woods, the land where early traders, colonists, and African slaces settled, and the scene of struggles for independence from Britain during the Revolutionary War.