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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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