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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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