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The Koger-Murray-Carroll House, an excellent example of early Federal era architecture, was built about 1800 for Joseph Koger, Jr. (1779-1866), a planter who served as a state representative from 1806 to 1812, Colleton District sheriff from 1813 to 1818, and state senator from 1818 to 1838. Koger moved to Mississippi in 1838 and sold the house to his brother-in-law, John Soule Murray (1792-1844), a planter and state senator from 1840 to 1843. In 1865 James Parsons Carroll (1809-1883), chancellor of the state court of equity, bought the house as a summer retreat; he had been a state representative in 1838-39, a state senator in 1852-53 and 1858-59, and a delegate to the Secession Convention. The house has long been called "the Old Carroll Place" and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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