Thomas E. Hart House
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renruts
N 34° 21.938 W 080° 06.974
17S E 581264 N 3803051
This sign resides right outside the gates of Kalmia Gardens and it informs us that the house here was the home of Thomas E. Hart, a man of many trades.
Waymark Code: WM1D60
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 04/09/2007
Views: 68
The Thomas E. Hart House and Kalmia Gardens are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Kalmia Gardens of Coker College
is located at 1624 West Carolina Avenue, Hartsville, SC 29550. These gardens are located on the bluffs of Black Creek, and are on the site of the early 19th century plantation of Captain Thomas Edwards Hart for whom Hartsville is named. The gardens were developed in the early 1930's by Mrs. David R. Coker. Over 30 acres of trails wind their way through the native and imported plants of these gardens all the way down to Black Creek.
More information about the Hart Family can be found
here
Marker Text:
This house was the residence of Captain Thomas Edwards Hart, who settled on these lands in 1817, and for whom Hartsville was named. He was a Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Board of Free Schools, planter, merchant, and was appointed first Postmaster when the Hartsville Post Office was established in 1838. He died in 1842 at the age of 46.