Lexington County · Marker 32-32

Saluda Factory Cemetery

Botanical Ln., West Columbia

Front inscription

This cemetery, thought to contain graves of supervisors and workers in the post-Civil War community of Saludaville, includes 31 marked graves and between 525 and 900 total burials. The Saluda Factory was a modest success before the war and was burned by Union troops in 1865. Rebuilt as the Saluda Manufacturing Company in 1974, it employed about 100 workers before it burned in 1884.

County
Lexington
Region
Midlands
City or vicinity
West Columbia
Year approved
2004
Erected by
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company and the Mungo Company
Coordinates
34.007617, -81.0859

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