Saluda County · Marker 41-03
Jacob Odom House
Batesburg Hwy. (S.C. Hwy. 23/39), near Double Branch Church, between Ridge Spring & Monetta
Front inscription
This site, approximately halfway between Augusta and Columbia, was the location of Jacob Odom's house, where George Washington spent the night of May 21, 1791, on his trip northward through South Carolina. His escort at this time consisted of Colonels Wade Hampton and Thomas Taylor, and Mr. Robert Lythgoe. This stop is noted in Washington's diary.