James Ingram Home

James Ingram Home is a South Carolina historical marker in Heath Springs vicinity, Lancaster County, dedicated 1970.

Lancaster County · dedicated 1970 · 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, Heath Springs vicinity

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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.

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James Ingram Home

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