The Ninety Six National Historic Site is located in Ninety Six, South Carolina and maintained by the US National Parks Service. Our Scout Troop wanted to visit and camp at this site to learn about the Revolutionary war era history and to perform an service project to directly help the environment and indirectly benefit the community. The park grounds include Star Fort Pond, a large recreational pond and area, used for fishing, boating, and other recreation. It is also a large wildlife habitit. After consulting with the Park Ranger, we learned that they needed our help picking up litter around the Star Fort Pond, so we organized our troop into wide patrol lines to carefully walk the entire area and remove any littler from the grounds and along the waters edge. Once we swept the entire perimeter, we reversed direction and double checked the entire site for missed litter. We also cleaned up the pond's parking lot and hiked several miles of the historic trails, like the Cherokee trail, picking up litter along the trail and trailside. Because this was a heavily used recreational area, we removed a large amount of discarded fishing line, bobbers, food wrappers, drink bottles, cans, paper, and cigarette butts. Removing this waste helps not only beautify the the area for future visitors, but also protects the wildlife from harmful trash products. Learning about the history of this site also added a sense of peace to our efforts. The Star Fort in Ninety Six, SC, was the site of an early Revolutionary War battle between Loyalists and Patriots, esentially a civil war between South Carolinians. It was a bloody and violent battle and learning about the history of the battle had an emotional effect on some of the Scouts. By responding with generosity and teamwork through our environmental service project, we believe we acted as Messengers of Peace, helping to preserve a once bloody battlefiend as a safe and clean place for wildlife and recreational visitors.