Hickory Valley

Hickory Valley is a South Carolina historical marker in Walterboro, Colleton County, dedicated 1967.

Colleton County · dedicated 1967 · Wichman St., just W of its intersection with Fishburne St., Walterboro

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Near here in a hickory grove Paul and Jacob Walter built in 1784 summer houses, which formed the nucleus of a summer colony which grew into the town of Walterboro. The first store in the town was here and later the first drug store. The park here was the center of community life until the cyclone of 1879 leveled most of the trees.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Colleton County Historical Society

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