South Carolina Memorial Garden

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829 Richland St, Columbia, SC 29201, USA

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N34° 0' 34" W81° 2' 36"   (34.009444444444, -81.043333333333) Start navigation »

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South Carolina Memorial Garden is a historic memorial garden located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was established in 1944-1945 by the Garden Club of South Carolina. It was designed by noted landscape architect Loutrel W. Briggs (1893-1977). It includes a variety of ornamental plants and complimentary design elements such as a gate house or tea room (1957), tool house or gardener's shed (1949-1951), walls (1948), gates (1948), walks, fountain terrace and fountain (1951-1952), sculpture (1952, 1954), and garden furniture. It was the first memorial garden sponsored by a state garden club in the United States that recognized veterans of World War II.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

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