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The Lexington County museum is composed of thirty historic structures on six and a
half acres uh... we try to interpret everyday life in Lexington County for
all citizens really we've got everything from a seventeen seventeen log house
uh... the Corley log house a large Corley log house to the building
that we're currently in the 1832 John Fox house
uh... we've got uh... one other frame structure from the eighteen thirties
we've got
many out buildings that you would have found typically on a farm
or plantation
uh... one of the most original buildings I think we have is
called The Pigeon house and uh... it dates from about 1850. It's originally
from the Wadlington plantation in
what's now Newberry county but uh... it was used of course to house pigeons
which they use for food so
it's kind of different people stop by just sometimes to ask about that
uh... but we've got two other log structures on the property and
we've also got a modern uh... building that we're currently installing exhibits
in to create a permanent exhibit on Lexington County history
uh... in terms of the state you know I, I, I can't say for sure but they have so
many different buildings
it really is unique
especially in the Midlands we're really
I think unique and because of Lexington's unique heritage
with uh, more of a German history
than the surrounding counties
uh... you know Leington had more small farms than Richland
and edgefield districts and all that
they were, you know they
had some very large
plantations which Lexington did too but most of the German farmers had
small farms so to have that kind of history I think is unique
if you love uh, history, local history
uh... if you uh...
if you love decorative art this is another place and
we've got something for everybody
whether you're into guns,
quilts, furniture
we also got a pretty good collection
of archival material
and research materials, so if anybody's doing research on
genealogy and they know their family is from Lexington or suspect their family is from lexington
we can sometimes uh... help with that as well.