Burt-Stark Mansion – Abbeville, South Carolina
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Like a ghost from the past, the Burt-Stark Mansion in Abbeville guards the northern approaches to the city at the Y-shaped intersection of North Main and Greenville streets. The house was constructed in the 1830s by a lawyer and planter named David Lesley and purchased by Confederate Army Major Armistead Burt in 1862.
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Burt had become friends with Jefferson Davis before the Civil War during the 1840s. As he was fleeing from Richmond on his way to Georgia at the close of the war, Davis is said to have stopped at his friend’s home where he held the last meeting with his Confederate cabinet on May 2, 1865.
The house was purchased by James Stark in 1913, and his daughters Mary Stark Davis and Fanny Stark McKee were its last residents. The house was donated to the Historic Preservation Committee in 1971 by Mary Stark Davis.
SCIWAY thanks Mark Clark, an Abbeville native currently residing in Winnsboro, for submitting this photograph and historical information.
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