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At the mouth of this tidal creek stood Gibbes Landing, a colonial-era site on a low bluff off the Ashley River that was part of a plantation owned by John Gibbes and known as Orange Grove or The Grove. In spring 1780, British and Hessian soldiers encamped there after marching south down the Charleston Neck, and the landing became an important supply point for the Siege of Charleston, one of the worst Patriot losses of the American Revolution. From the river's west bank, British forces ferried artillery, provisions, and trench building materials to Gibbes Landing, the Neck's closest firm landing to Charleston proper, and sailors and enslaved people moved the supplies to other nearby positions. British forces besieged the city for six weeks and occupied it until December 1782. Any remnants of the landing were likely lost when this creek was flooded to create temporary Lake Juanita for the 1901-02 Charleston Exposition.
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Charleston, South Carolina · United States
