"Commissioners' Oak"
In April 1786, Alexander Gillon, Henry Pendleton, Richard Winn, Richard Hampton, and Thomas Taylor, Commissioners appointed to lay out Columbia, are said to have met under an oak which grew near here. According to tradition the first court and jury in Richland County also met here.
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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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