Editing Eutawville, South Carolina (section)

==History==
Eutawville takes its name from the Eutaw Spring.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n121 122]}}</ref><ref name="Dunkerly">{{cite book|last1=Dunkerly|first1=Robert|last2=Boland|first2=Irene|title=Eutaw Springs|date=2017|publisher=The University of South Carolina Press|location=Columbia|isbn=9781611177589|pages=27–30}}</ref>

[[File:"The Eutaw," William Henry Sinkler house, Eutawville vicinity, Berkeley County, South Carolina. Drive to entrance.jpg|thumb|left|"The Eutaw," William Henry Sinkler house, Eutawville vicinity, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938]]

[[James Sinkler]] (died 1752) moved to America from Scotland in the early 1700s and settled near Bonneau, South Carolina. James Sinkler (1740–1800) and his wife Margaret Cantey moved to Upper St. John's Parish in 1785. William Sinkler (1787–1853), son of James and Margaret Cantey Sinkler and in turn his son, William Henry, owned Belvidere plantation in Eutawville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.sc.edu/socar/uscs/2009/sink09.html|title=South Caroliniana Library - University Libraries - University of South Carolina|website=library.sc.edu|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref>

Eutawville was the site of the [[Battle of Eutaw Springs]] in 1781 during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. It was the last battle in the field in the southern states during the war.<ref name="EB1911"/>

[[Eutaw Springs Battleground Park]], [[Numertia Plantation]], and [[St. Julien Plantation]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>