For many years this house was the home of Marie Cromer Seigler (1882-1964), an educator and national pioneer in agricultural instruction. In 1910, while serving as teacher and principal of Talatha School, she founded a Girls' Tomato Club, the first of many such clubs nationwide and, along with the Boys' Corn Clubs, a forerunner of the national 4-H Clubs supported by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Seeking to encourage girls and young women interested in agriculture, she said, "I made up my mind I was going to do something for country girls." With the support of Aiken Co. Superintendent of Education Cecil H. Seigler, whom she married in 1912, she established Home Demonstration clubs and created Home Economics courses in Aiken Co. schools. She died here in 1964.

Photo: International Harvester Company

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Photo: Mike Stroud

Photo: Mike Stroud

Photo: Mike Stroud

Photo: Mike Stroud

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