Sarah Boylston and her garden (1871-1963) [1984 Apr.] / by Jennie Dreher Evins.

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Sarah Boylston and her garden (1871-1963) [1984 Apr.] / by Jennie Dreher Evins.

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Biographical sketch re Sarah Porter Smith Boylston (1881-1963) and her garden in downtown Columbia, S.C., [a site now known as the Caldwell-Hampton-Boyleston House]; essay describes landscape and plantings of various areas of the property, as well as a discussion of the horticultural books held in her library. Dreher delivered this speech during a conference promoting historic preservation in Columbia, S.C., in 1984. Sarah Porter Smith was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist from Chicago who chose Columbia, S.C., for his winter home; in 1909 she married Samuel Shoemaker Boylston, a businessman of Winnsboro, S.C., and settled in Columbia, S.C., as did her sister, Amanda "Mank" Smith, who married Edward Clarence Leverette Adams. These two families lived in homes near the Governor's Mansion.

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Boylston, Samuel Shoemaker.

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Boylston, Sarah Porter Smith, 1881-1963.

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Boylston family.

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Dreher, Jennie Clarkson.

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Born and reared in Columbia, SC, Jennie Clarkson Dreher Evins (1916-2006) graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1937 with an AB in Education and a certificate in Fine Arts. In 1942 she married James F. Dreher. She was active in civic and cultural endeavors, including the Columbia Junior League, the Junior League Speech and Hearing Clinic, the Town Theatre, and the Columbia Museum of Art. As president of the Historic Columbia Foundation (1962-1967 and 1970-19...