Ninety Six National Historic Site preserves the site of the old town of Ninety Six, an important seat of power in South Carolina’s backcountry during colonial times, along with some of the best preserved American Revolution earthworks, including the Star Fort and a military mine. The area also holds the paths first hunted by Cherokee Indians and the land where early traders, colonists, and African slaves settled, and it was a scene of struggles for independence from Britain during the Revolutionary War. Its landscape includes the Stockade Fort of 1781, the Logan Log House, the Gouedy Trail, Cherokee Path Trail, and Star Fort Pond.