BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTOC) - According to the Beaufort Police Department, there is a large police presence in the area of Robert ...
The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and ... The commission picked Basil Watson, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, to sculpt the statue. Watson also sculpted the memorial to desegregation ...
As darkness enveloped the waters of Charleston Harbor, Robert Smalls realized that he would have no better chance to escape slavery than that morning. It was May 13, 1862, and Smalls did not ...
Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission to ... the Decatur County Courthouse in Bainbridge, Ga., Watson is also the artist behind a recently ...
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A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a ...