US Marine Corps Recruit Depot - Yearbook (Parris Island, SC)

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,,,..g,........... History ni Parris Island Parris Island, home of basic training for today's Marines east of the Mississippi, has a colorful history. Although the first Marine Corps Ac- tivity on the island was in June, 1891, the story of its occupancy by the white man reaches back more than three centuries into antiquity. Covering approximately 7800 acres of land and water, Parris Island is located off the South Carolina coast about midway between Charleston, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. The site of the earliest attempt by Europeans to settle within the present boundaries of the State of South Carolina, the island was visited in 1526 by Valaquez de Alleyn who headed a Spanish expedition in search of slaves and gold. Probably the first European to land , 5' N C PM Wnwl' AQ? S I . -, I l . Al -QQ. l -'Y . ,i wx l l l - l l . l .C l f l S l 31' l i ll lwo Jima Statue by Depot Parade Field Depot Headquarters

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here, he named adjacent St. Helena lsland and claimed it for Spain some 50 years before the French attempted to colonize the islands which included this Marine Corps Re- cruit Depot. An expedition of French Hugenots, under Jean Ribaut Csometimes spelled Ribaultj, landed here in April, 1562. Before returning to France, they established Charles Fort on what is now Parris Island. Historians are indebted to one member of this expedition in particular. He was a cartogra- pher of considerable ability named Lenoyne. One of his maps of the region firmly locates Charles Fort on Parris lsland. In 1663 William Hilton, of Barbades, rediscovered Charles Fort while exploring the newly-chartered province of Caro- lina. Today, the Ribaut Monument stands on the site of ancient Charles Fort to mark one of the first colonies estab- lished in the New World. In 1670 an English expedition arrived in the area and settled down to establish permanent towns and the first of the famed southern plantations. The Lord Proprietors of South Carolina passed the title to Parris Island down through several colonial settlers until Marine Corps Exchange Recruit Training Regiment Headquarters I ft' War Memorial Building