Snow’s Island, a large, thickly forested landmass across the Great Pee Dee River, was closely associated with Francis Marion’s Revolutionary War career as the site of his legendary camp. With high, dry ground protected by water and marshland, abundant fish and game, and friendly Whig settlements nearby, it offered an ideal secluded base, and in Marion’s day the canopy of enormous old trees probably limited understory growth enough for horsemen to ride freely across much of the island. From the fall of 1780 to the spring of 1781, Marion used a large camp somewhere on Snow’s Island, together with outposts at Port’s Ferry and Dunham’s Bluff, as his main base of operations against British and Loyalist forces in eastern South Carolina. After British soldiers raided the camp at the end of March 1781, his campaign shifted away from this area. Because of the island’s size, difficult terrain, and landscape changes caused by generations of forestry, archaeological investigation has been especially difficult, and the camp’s precise location remains unknown.