Heyward House Historic Center

South Carolina

70 Boundary Street
Bluffton, SC 29910
United States

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On June 4, 1863, Union troops came down along the May River and bombed the town. Seventy-five percent of the town burned. Only eight homes and two churches survive today from the antebellum period. The Heyward House is one of those eight homes and is the only one open to the public.

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