History at Robertville
Originally known as Black Swamp in the late 18th century, the village of Robertville was formally established about 1810 around the crossroads of the Savannah Road and the Charleston-to-Augusta Road in what was then upper Beaufort District, South Carolina.
This website is dedicated to documenting the history of Robertville, South Carolina. Feel free to explore the links. As with all websites, this one is always a work in progress and is likely to add new content over time. To read more about Robertville’s history, check out Eric Plaag’s The Means of Grace in our bookstore.
Detail crop from O. M. Poe’s Map Illustrating the March of the Army under Command of Maj. General W. T. Sherman, from Savannah to Raleigh, January to April 1865 (1865), RG 77, US 258, National Archives II, College Park, MD. Robertville’s name was often incorrectly rendered as “Robertsville” by non-locals.