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Legare Poet Artist Ties Bind Aiken Past
Aiken preserves ties to James Mathewes Legare a 19th century poet artist and inventor. A Legare monument at Saint Thaddeus churchyard recalls his final resting place while the Legare Room at 10 Downing Street where his paintings and a carved mantelpiece are displayed keeps his legacy alive.
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Aiken
James Mathewes Legare
Saint Thaddeus
Aiken High School
South Carolina
Our
James Legare
Legree
Charleston
Farm Journal
Southern Agriculturalist
James
College of Charleston
St. Mary’s College
Baltimore
Hugh Swinton Legare
Washington
U.S
John Tyler
Legare
Laurens Street
No. 10
Downing Street
John
William Ticknor
Boston
Venus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Gilmore Simms
Curtis Davis
Jan Waugh
No. 10 Downing Street
Athena
Zeus
Plas
James Henry Hammond
Redcliffe Plantation
Beech Island
Hammond
Saint