Parkers Ferry, South Carolina

Parkers Ferry is a small unincorporated community in Charleston County, South Carolina.

[1][2] Neighboring communities include Willtown Bluff, Jericho, Osborne, and Adams Run.

[8] Encampment Plantation was owned by Robert Young Hayne, senator and governor of South Carolina.

It is speculated that the property may have been the location where troops were stationed during the Revolutionary War to guard South Carolina's state government, which met across the Edisto River during the British occupation of Charleston.

The Parkers Ferry Parade is held annually on the third Saturday of May and typically attracts a crowd of 500 people.