Berkeley County · Marker 08-30
Thomas Walter
U.S. Hwy. 52 just E of its intersection with Colonel Maham Dr., Cross vicinity
Front inscription
The grave of Thomas Walter (c. 1740-1789), pioneer botanist, is 9 mi. W at his Santee River plantation. A native of England, Walter came to S.C. by 1769. He collected and catalogued many plants native to the lowcountry. His catalog Flora Caroliniana, published in London in 1788, was the first botany of an American region to use the Linnaean classification system.