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The Abbeville Opera House is located in Abbeville, South Carolina. It was built in 1908 and (according to the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism), the theatre has received the South Carolina Governor's Travel Award for Tourism and was designated as the Official Rural Drama State Theatre of South Carolina.
Abbeville is nicknamed "the birthplace (and deathplace) of the Confederacy," as the meeting on Secession Hill ultimately led to its formation. Secession Hill lies just east of modern-day Secession Street in Abbeville, South Carolina. It is the site where Abbeville citizens gathered on November 22, 1860 to adopt the ordinance of South Carolina's secession from the Union and one month later, the state of South Carolina became the first state to secede. Here the delegates to the December 17, 1860 secession convention in Columbia, South Carolina were selected. An unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama is buried on Secession Hill. Secession Hill is owned by the Columbia-based Southern Culture Centre. They plan on developing the site into a park.
