Chronicle-Independent Column: DAR historic preservation efforts One of the many historical markers of the DAR’s contributions to preserving American Revolutionary history throughout the country. (Submitted by Ginny Zemp) The Historic Camden Foundation wants to highlight some of the historic preservation efforts of the Daughters of the American Revolution here in South Carolina. In Kershaw County, the Hobkirk’s Hill Chapter led the efforts to save the site of the Battle of Camden in 1907 setting aside 5 acres of the core battlefield. Within that preservation, this group of local women (who, incidentally, were not allowed to vote in national or local elections at the time) conceived of, funded and protected the land, and artifacts of that 1780 battle for independence.