Murray's Ferry on the Santee River was chartered by acts of the General Assembly beginning March 8, 1741, with title vested successively in Joseph Murray, Theodore Gaillard, James Hunter, Trustee, Adam McDonald, Theodore Gourdin, and William Staggers. Upon Staggers's death in 1863, the ferry was abandoned. On his plantation near here is buried General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, a partisan leader in the struggle for independence in the Carolinas during the Revolution. He used this crossing and the dense swamp most successfully in harassing and eluding the enemy, and after the fall of Charleston, when the British established a guard here, Marion, then lieutenant colonel of the Second South Carolina Continental Regiment, attacked and captured the post on the night of August 23, 1780.