Folly's History Walk

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Summertime hours, Folly Civil War Walk, 8am, and 10am daily
Coffin Island Ghost Walk-7:45 pm Stories from the SC Sea Islands Walk (stories of ghosts, hags, Indians, mermaids, pirates, rootdoctors, and shipwrecks)-7:45 pm daily, reservations required.

Happy summertime! Folly's History Walk has a daily Civil War history walk at 8am and 10am. We also have "The Coffin Isla...
06/09/2025

Happy summertime! Folly's History Walk has a daily Civil War history walk at 8am and 10am. We also have "The Coffin Island " ghost walk daily at 8pm. We depart from gate at 1746 E. Ashley Ave, here on Folly Beach. The walks last 80 minutes and reservations are required. Thanks y'all!

A good photo of Mckevlins Surf shop. You can see a few buildings to the right of the shop.
05/20/2025

A good photo of Mckevlins Surf shop. You can see a few buildings to the right of the shop.

Here's an old picture provided by an old timer of the old road coming to Folly on the left. The original road to Folly a...
05/20/2025

Here's an old picture provided by an old timer of the old road coming to Folly on the left. The original road to Folly actually went from Peas island to Long island to little Oak Island to Oak island, before ending up on Folly Beach.
They advertised that it took 45 minutes from Broad St downtown to Folly Beach, but it could take two hours sometimes.

I found this old photo from the early 90s, during my heyday, when Folly Beach looked alot different. I believe this is t...
05/20/2025

I found this old photo from the early 90s, during my heyday, when Folly Beach looked alot different. I believe this is the west side of the island. They have torn down alot of the house's that I used to live in.

Here's an actual picture taken of the naval battle on April 7th, 1863, and the ironclad ships that the federal navy were...
05/20/2025

Here's an actual picture taken of the naval battle on April 7th, 1863, and the ironclad ships that the federal navy were using in an attempt to capture the city. The engagement only lasted a couple of hours and the Southern harbor forts fired over 2000 shots with a 20 percent hit ratio and the ironclads managed 154 shots. The Keokuk ironclad was struck 90 times in thirty minutes and sank off of Morris island the following morning. The southern side was able to reuse the guns inside the ironclad and also discovered a valuable signal code book that enabled the Confederates to be able to read all the union messages that were sent.

Folly's History Walk is offering its popular history walk, "To Take Charleston, The Civil War on Folly Island ", for fre...
05/18/2025

Folly's History Walk is offering its popular history walk, "To Take Charleston, The Civil War on Folly Island ", for free on May, 31st at 10am, Folly Island became the base of operations for the federal army starting in April of 1863, in an attempt to capture the city of Charleston SC. The worst fighting in SC took place during a 58 day siege. Come hear the stories of a military campaign almost forgotten in time. We depart from 1746 E.Ashley Ave. here on Folly Beach. Reservations are required and gratiuties are appreciated. Thanks y'all!

Folly's History Walk is offering are popular history walk, "To Take Charleston, The Civil War.on Folly Island", for free...
05/06/2025

Folly's History Walk is offering are popular history walk, "To Take Charleston, The Civil War.on Folly Island", for free on Saturday, May 17th at 10am. Starting in April, 1863, Folly Island became the base of operations for the federal army in an attempt to try and capture the city of Charleston, SC. For 58 days the Union army tried to take control of Morris island, but after finally capturing it, not much progress was made in capturing the city. A classic defensive stand made by the Confederates against a much more powerful and plentiful Union enemy. Come hear the stories of a military campaign all but lost in time, and that introduced modern warfare.
The walk lasts 75 minutes and departs from 1746 E. Ashley Ave, here on Folly Beach. Reservations are required, (e-mail us at [email protected]) and gratiuties are appreciated. Come on out and see what we discovered about the history of Folly during the Civil War, thanks y'all!

Here's an update, I had a great discussion of the topic of Coffin island and where the name originates. Yes we local his...
05/02/2025

Here's an update, I had a great discussion of the topic of Coffin island and where the name originates. Yes we local historians can have a lively discussion about history without disrespecting some one's perspective. Here's a copy of a map of JI and Folly island, and thank you to the person who gave me the map. It dates from 1696 before Folly was given to William Rivers and named Folly island. This is a discovery since I have not found a map so old using the name, Coffin. But this old map will dispel the fact that the Coffin family of Beaufort were not associated with the island. The family didn't arrive in SC till the late 1700s. But one more clue, that I believe solves the mystery. Look closely at the map magnified and look at both folly and Morris island. There are distinct mounds scattered across the landscape on both islands. Maybe sand dunes, well look on the map carefully at Kiawah island and there are no sand dunes shown and I think its safe to assume Kiawah island had sand dunes. I think the island was not named for a family, but the dangerous place that area was.

A year before Ebenezer Coffin was born in 1762. Folly Island was referred to as Coffin land in someone's will. The timin...
04/17/2025

A year before Ebenezer Coffin was born in 1762. Folly Island was referred to as Coffin land in someone's will. The timing is all wrong.
There's no way Folly Island was named after the Coffin family. Wikipedia got it wrong!

This map is from 1777, and the Coffin family was still living in Boston, Massachusetts.
04/17/2025

This map is from 1777, and the Coffin family was still living in Boston, Massachusetts.

I'm sure that many people have memories of the ferris wheel
04/17/2025

I'm sure that many people have memories of the ferris wheel

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02/26/2025

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Folly Beach, SC

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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+18434717118

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