"The principal streets are wide and well improved, the stores and other houses for the transaction of business are large, commodious and handsome. . . . In regard to the private residences of the well-to-do portion of the population, too much cannot be said in their praise. A large number of them present much architectural skill and beauty, surrounded by capacious grounds, handsomely ornamented with the rarest shrubbery known to the South."
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THE POLLARD RESIDENCE, BUILT BEFORE THE WAR.
Another visitor was impressed with the numerous
"residences of gentlemen who own plantations in the
hotter and less healthful parts of the State. Many of
these have been educated in the older States, and with
minds enlarged and liberalized by travel, they form, with
their families, a cultivated and attractive society."
