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American Legion Hut
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Built in 1933 as a cypress-log hut, this building became the headquarters of American Legion Post #108 after legionnaires and other local citizens cut cypress trees for it, designed it, and built it with funding from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a Depression-era federal program. State Senator George Warren donated the one-acre site to the Town of Hampton, which deeded it to American Legion Post #108 in 1940. Praised at its opening as one of the most beautiful buildings in the state, it hosted Friday night dances for many years and served during World War II as a dining hall for German prisoners of war held nearby. A fine example of vernacular log construction, it was long a center of social and cultural events in Hampton County and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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