The Boy of the Waxhaws Marker

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Near Van Wyck in Lancaster County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

The Boy of the Waxhaws
By Anna Hyatt Huntington

The Boy of the Waxhaws Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Michael Sean Nix, October 28, 2009

1. The Boy of the Waxhaws Marker

Inscription. This statue of the young Andrew Jackson is a gift to the children of South Carolina by the sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington. Children of the elementary schools throughout the state contributed their nickel and dimes for the base.

"We, the children of Lancaster County, South Carolina, are interested in a youthful statue of Andrew Jackson because he was born among the red clay hills of our county and here he spent the formative years of his life, his first seventeen, riding horseback,wrestling, cock-fighting, and gaining the best education the frontier had to offer: instructions from the Presbyterian minister at the Waxhaw Meeting House." Sixth grade, H.R. Rice Elementary School
Nancy Crockett, Teacher and Principal
"A picture came to mind as I read over your letter and I have tried out the composition. I have Jackson as a young man of sixteen or seventeen seated bareback on a farm horse, one hand leaning back on the horse's rump and looking over his native hills, to wonder what the future holds for him."

"It has been a pleasure for me to work on South Carolina's great man and to try to visualize him as a maturing youth looking into the future." Anna Hyatt Huntington

Erected 1967 by

By Michael Sean Nix, October 28, 2009

2. The Boy of the Waxhaws Marker

Lancaster County Historical Commission and South Carolina State Commission of Forestry.

Location. 34° 50.4′ N, 80° 48.43′ W. Marker is near Van Wyck, South Carolina, in Lancaster County. Marker is on Andrew Jackson State Park Road 0.4 miles east of U.S. 521. Click for map. Marker is in Andrew Jackson State Park. Marker is in this post office area: Van Wyck SC 29744, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Jackson Comes Home (here, next to this marker); Birthplace of Andrew Jackson Monument (about 300 feet away, in a direct line); School Days in the Waxhaws (about 300 feet away); Heart of the Community (about 400 feet away); Birthplace of Andrew Jackson (approx. 0.2 miles away); a different marker also named Birthplace of Andrew Jackson (approx. 0.3 miles away); Major Crawford's Home (approx. 0.5 miles away); Boundary Line (approx. 0.9 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Van Wyck.