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Thomas Walter, a pioneer botanist, was a native of England who came to S.C. by 1769. He collected and catalogued many plants native to the lowcountry. His catalog Flora Caroliniana was the first botany of an American region to use the Linnaean classification system. His grave is 9 mi. west at his Santee River plantation, where he was buried after his death in 1789.
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