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| So called because it was a tavern, and because it expressed the distance from Charleston. This is Barnet's Tavern whence Gen. Greene wrote his despatch announcing the battle of Eutaw Spring. When I was a boy the house was standing on the right (east) side of tlie road; a long two story frame house kept by a Mr. Faust. In front was an open field where were held the musters of tlie Beat Company. Afterwards the muster ground was changed to the Calamus Pond about three miles higher up. The old house was taken and a new one erected at some distance from it by Mr. Robert Foxwortli. But by this time all travel on tlie road had ceased, and it was a house of entertainment only in name. In 1833 the Eutaw State Volunteers, a company raised to support the ordinance of Nullification, selected this as their muster ground and a dinner was furnished by tlie host. Mr. Foxworth was a genial man, respected by his neighbors. He had two daughters, the elder of whom married Benjamin Dehay, who removed to York district; the younger to W. Villepontoux of Cooper River. Their child married P". Richards of Charleston. After Mr. Foxworth's death, his widow married Peter Avinger, of St. Matthews. The tract of land was purchased by Isaac Porcher of Chapel Hill. |
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