Bluffton, South Carolina

Bluffton, United States

Bluffton, South Carolina shares 34 connections with 8309 other places across 11 topics, spanning Civil War history, historic landmarks, transportation, and nature. Long a stopover between Hilton Head and Savannah, the town has grown into a destination in its own right. It ties closely to neighboring Hilton Head Island and Hardeeville. After the Union victory at the Battle of Port Royal in 1861, Bluffton served as a Confederate picket headquarters monitoring the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. A development boom in the 1990s around Sun City Hilton Head drove a commercial resurgence.