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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: June 21, 2009
Caption: Wilson Ruins Marker
Additional Description: completed work on an enormous mansion Wilson named "Palmetto Lodge". The house and its grounds became a village unto itself, with a machine shop, wood shop, power plant, ice plant and even a school. Dozens of people were employed on the site- engaged not only in running the house and entertaining the numerous guests, but in farming and timbering the 18,000 acres which Wilson owned. For ten years following the Wilson fire, Varn Turpentine and Cattle Company farmed the property, with the turpentine distilleries and shipping facilities on this very bluff.
In 1937, the Palmetto Bluff property was purchased by Union Bag Co., which later became Union Camp. From then until year 2000 it was run as a hunting lodge and retreat, hosting many luminaries, including heads of state.
Submitted: June 29, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p68802
File Size: 0.572 Megabytes

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