Lancaster County · Marker 29-10

James Ingram Home

Flat Rock Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 29-15) at its intersection with Hanging Rock Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 29-467), about 2.5 mi. S of Heath Springs

Front inscription

While on his Southern tour, President George Washington spent the night of May 26, 1791, at the James Ingram house, near here. According to Washington's diary, he left Ingram's at four o'clock the next morning and continued his journey northward, traveling eighteen miles before breakfast. Sherman's Army is said to have destroyed the house in 1865.

County
Lancaster
Region
Midlands
City or vicinity
Heath Springs vicinity
Year approved
1970
Erected by
Waxhaws Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Coordinates
34.5662, -80.6726

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