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The gaol on this corner was built in 1771 and burned in 1812. During the Revolution, the British imprisoned many American soldiers and civilians there. Among them, after his capture near the Waxhaws, was the boy Andrew Jackson, later the seventh President. He is said to have watched the Battle of Hobkirk Hill through a hole he cut in the wall of the gaol's second story.
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East Camden, South Carolina · United States
