Under the Pines Traditional Geocache
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We have placed 9 caches in the Hampton Plantation State Park, in honor of Archibald Hamilton Rutledge, the last owner of the property, who sold it to the state of South Carolina in 1971. We have given each cache the name of one of his 50 books.
Archibald Hamilton Rutledge was born October 23, 1883 in McClellanville, SC. As a boy, Rutledge hunted on the plantation with his father and brothers. His ancestors included a Governor of SC, a chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, and a signer of the US constitution. He attended the Porter Military Academy, now the exclusive Porter-Gaud School, in Charleston, SC. He then attended Union College where he was graduated in 1904 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and membership in The Kappa Alpha Society. Later in life, he taught English at Mercersburg Academy in PA. He was married and raised three sons. In the family tradition, he took them hunting back home in SC and in the woods of the Appalachian hills, and his writings reflect this personal devotion to the hunting ethos. His articles and poems appeared in Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, and dozens of other magazines. He wrote more than 50 books, including An American Hunter (1937), Old Plantation Days (1907), and Wild Life of the South (1935). Virtually all of his books, other than those devoted to poetry, comprised pieces that had previously appeared in magazines. He was named the South Carolina Poet Laureate in 1934. His poems often described his hunting and life experiences growing up on Hampton Plantation and the trips home to SC in summer and for holidays.
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