Lemuel Boozer House

	Lemuel Boozer House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Lemuel Boozer House, August 2012
Location	320 W. Main St.,; Lexington, South Carolina
Coordinates	33°59′6″N 81°14′32″W / 33.98500°N 81.24222°W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	c. 1820-1830, 1840s
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Federal, Raised Cottage
NRHP reference No.	77001231
Added to NRHP	August 16, 1977

Lemuel Boozer House, also known as the Boozer-Harmon House, is a historic home located in the town of Lexington in Lexington County, South Carolina. The home belonged to lawyer, politician, and judge Lemuel Boozer (1809-1870). It was built about 1828–1830 and is a one-story clapboard dwelling on a raised basement. It has a low-pitch gable roof and a tall basement of brick piers. A rear ell and wing were added in the 1840s.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.^[1] It is one of the oldest structures in the town of Lexington.

Lemuel Boozer

Lemuel Boozer was a lawyer who served as state representative, state senator, and lieutenant governor of South Carolina of South Carolina, and as a state circuit judge. Although Boozer was a slave owner, he did not support the Confederacy and helped Union soldiers escape from POW Camps.^[3] Boozer also started a school on the rear of this property for freed slaves after the end of the Civil War.^[4]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP Form" (PDF). www.nationalregister.sc.gov. 1977. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
^ Ancestry.com. U.S., Southern Claims Commission Allowed Claims, 1871-1880 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
^ Gadecki,Victoria Lynn. Looking Toward the Future through the Windows of the Past: A History of Lexington County SC School District 1. Donning Company Publishers 2010

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] "NRHP Form" (PDF). www.nationalregister.sc.gov. 1977. Retrieved 2019-10-20.

[3] Ancestry.com. U.S., Southern Claims Commission Allowed Claims, 1871-1880 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

[4] Gadecki,Victoria Lynn. Looking Toward the Future through the Windows of the Past: A History of Lexington County SC School District 1. Donning Company Publishers 2010

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