Original Survey of Aiken

Original Survey of Aiken is a South Carolina historical marker in Aiken, Aiken County, dedicated 2004.

Aiken County · dedicated 2004 · corner of Laurens St. and Park Ave., Aiken, Aiken

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The town of Aiken, on land donated by Mr. Beverly M. Rodgers to the S.C. Rail Road in 1834, was laid out around a core of 27 city blocks bounded by Edgefield and Park Aves. and Newberry and Williamsburg Sts. This area was surveyed by civil engineers Cyril Ouviere Pascalis (1810-1836?) and Andrew Alfred Dexter (1809-1854), who had also helped survey the route of the new railroad between Hamburg and Charleston in 1832-33.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Henry Tyler Chapter, Colonial Dames of the XVII Century, Jefferson Davis Chapter #2465, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Gen. David Williams Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the War of 1812

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