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This was way back in like the early 2000s.

This would have been sometime between 2004 and 2006 that this occurred.

There are two forts out on Folly Beach that were never properly excavated.

One of them was on the beach and the other is in the woods.

It is still in the woods intact and has still not been properly excavated.

The one that was on the beach,

Was washing away and it was huge news and every huge local news and everybody was talking about it, who was interested in preserving local history, that kind of thing.

So my mom was like, hey, guys, we're going to go out to Folly Beach and we're going to go like check out like what's out there.

So we all got our little shovels and we went out there and.

The thing that was really interesting was that because Folly Beach is a barrier island, the sand is constantly shifting and the ocean is constantly like picking things up and bringing them back out.

So as soon as something gets buried, it eventually gets uncovered.

And so when we got there, there was so much of the fort that was just sticking up out of the sand.

And there were things that you could just, I mean, you could just lean down and pick stuff up.

It was a pretty wild experience.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, and you can actually still see it.

It's in the ocean now, and you can still see the concrete pillars sticking out of the water, but it's fully underwater now.

Yep, a Civil War fort.

This was the fort of the 54th Regiment, which was, you know, the first all-Black regiment in South Carolina.

So...