Take a few minutes to look around the nature center and check out the exhibits and artifacts in the display. If you had been standing on this spot in 1706, you would have seen a maimed French privateer in the direction of Mount Pleasant. In February of 1700, explorer John Lawson arrived to “Bell’s Island”. In 1718, Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet made their way past on their way to Cape Fear. You would have seen British ships amassing right off the coast, preparing to attack Fort Moultrie and Sullivans Island. You might have seen Francis Marion slipping northward to Georgetown.