8-30 Thomas Walter
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carolina1
N 33° 26.316 W 079° 59.085
17S E 594370 N 3700372
West side of US 52 at Crawl Creek, S. side.
Waymark Code: WM3WDJ
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2008
Views: 20
The grave of Thomas Walter (c. 1740-1789), pioneer botanist, is 8 miles W at his Santee River Plantation. A native of England, Walter came to S.C. by 1769. He collected and catalogued many plants native to the lowcountry. His catalog Flora Caroliniana, published in London in 1788, was the first botany of an American region to use the Linnaean classification system.
Marker Name: Thomas Walter
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Person
Marker number: 8-30
County: Berkeley
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