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China Grove Cemetery
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine , July 2007 |
History in
a Chinaberry
The land had been granted to one Warren D. C. Hall sometime prior to 1840.
Hall was an amateur botanist who (besides cotton)
planted his land with citrus, roses, figs and the Chinaberry trees that furnished
the name of his plantation. Hall's plantation was sold to two business partners
in 1843 - one of which was (future) Confederate General
Albert Sidney Johnston. The Columbia Tap Railroad built a depot in front of
the plantation in the 1870s and operated it through the early 1890s. The town
of Custer was established and over the years China Grove melted into the
landscape - leaving only a a single building in the 1970s.
Today only
the cemetery is left to mark the plantation that never made the transition to
town. | |
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