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Updated: 7:24 PM Sep 5, 2008
Palmetto House was true North Augusta original
It stood for over one hundred years. It's been known by a number of names. Its path has not always been a smooth one, but one way or another, the Palmetto House has a long legacy.
Posted: 6:35 PM Sep 5, 2008Reporter: Jeff Anderson Email Address: jeff.anderson@wrdw.com |
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News 12 at 6, September 5, 2008
NORTH AUGUSTA--It stood for over one hundred years. It's been known by a number of names: The Buffalo Room, Seven Gables and most recently the Palmetto House.
Its path has not always been a smooth one, but one way or another, it has a long legacy.
Way back in 1902, when North Augusta was in its infancy, the North Augusta Hotel Company built a monstrosity of a hotel called Hampton Terrace.
It was dubbed the "most magnificent winter resort in the world." Celebrities like Albert Einstein came to hob-knob and stay in one of the hotel's 500 rooms and play on the world class golf course. But in 1916, a fire leveled it.
A nearby hunting lodge managed to survive the fire and would play an interesting role in North Augusta's history.
By 1989, it was a restaurant. It became front page news when it was shut down because then owner Bruce Salter refused to serve african-americans.
His son Randy re-opened the restaurant a few years later, but he too fell in trouble with the law when he was arrested on drug and weapons charges. It eventually was auctioned off.
It re-opened less than a year ago as The Palmetto House at Seven Gables. But 92 years after a fire destroyed the Hampton Terrace. It's neighbor, The Palmetto House fell to the same fate.
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