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Lady Street

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Front Description

One of the original streets in the 1786 Columbia plan, Lady Street is thought to have been named for Martha Custis Washington, the new nation’s first lady whom South Carolina wished to honor. Lady Washington presided over the president’s home, Mount Vernon, a national landmark which was saved from destruction in 1859 by South Carolinian Ann Pamela Cunningham, organizer and first regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union.

Site Photos

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